Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
His grandparents fled from Korea during World War II and came to the United States; in 1905, his grandmother worked on a sugarcane plantation at Hawaii.
His novel A Ricepaper Airplane is based on an incident related with his mum in the setting of a sugarcane plantation.
In his short story collection Language of the Geckos and Other Stories, Pak's memorable portraits of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians increases cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life and culture.
Pak was also the producer, play writer and editor of the Olelo Community TV series, Plantation Children: 2nd-generation Koreans in Hawai'i.