Patricia Griffith is a founding member of PEN/Faulkner and a former president of the Board. She is a novelist and playwright. Two of her stories were included in the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her story "Nights at O'Rear's," first published in Harper's, was made into a...

Former Board
Tracy McGillivary
Tracy majored in American Literature at Hofstra University in New York. She then earned her JD at the University of South Carolina and her LLM in Taxation at George Washington University. She was introduced to PEN/Faulkner through Molly Elkin, a partner in Tracy’s...

Susan Keselenko Coll
Board President

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Board Chair

Mary Haft
Mary Haft (she/her) is a writer, producer, and founder of Haft Productions, LLC, specializing in documentaries for nonprofits. She is the author of Nantucket: Portrait of an American Town and one of the founding partners of the Nantucket Book Festival. Recently, she...

Willee Lewis
Vice President

Louis Bayard
Board Member

Jackson R. Bryer
Board Member

Molly Elkin
Board Member

Renée K. Gardner
Board Member

Ginny Grenham
Board Member

Katherine Field Stephen
Board Member

Malcolm O’Hagan
Board Member

Lisa Page
Board Member

Deborah Tannen
Board Member
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