Vice President

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 brought PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools program to Nantucket’s public school system, and inaugurated an annual Young Writer Award to encourage the act of writing. A part of the PEN/Faulkner team for many years, she has also co-chaired the annual PEN/Faulkner Gala in Washington for the past seven years.