pat matsueda

Pat Matsueda was the managing editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (a twice-yearly literary magazine published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press) from 1992 to 2022. She is the creator of such publishing venues as Ms. Aligned, Vice-Versa, and Auteur Limits and the author of Tailspin and Other Stories (a collection of fiction and creative nonfiction), the novella Bedeviled, and the poetry volumes Bitter Angels and Stray. Her blogposts have ranged in subject from the music of Jake Shimabukuro and Richard Thompson to masculinity in geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s biography and the contemplation of suicide by comedian Robin Williams. As the owner of Peak Services, she worked on Reckonings by Thomas Farber (El León Literary Arts/Mānoa Books, 2025) and Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers by Ugo Corte (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Some of her writing can be found at someperfectfuture.com.

erin sueyoshi

Erin has expertise in producing technical illustrations in Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Adobe Illustrator. Logos designed by Pat were produced by Erin in Adobe Illustrator. A state agency’s organizational chart was given to Peak Services in rough form and redesigned and produced in QuarkXPress by Erin. Because QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign are competing applications, we offer typesetting and layout services in both.

Erin also offers advice and help with computer hardware and software; he has experience in both Windows and Mac OS.