Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the Atlanta Gazette from 1974 to 1975. She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of Five Points. She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001. Her work has appeared in Blackbird Review, Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, the Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The New Virginia Review, and The Ohio Review. Awards 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award for So Far Back 1994 Townsend Prize for The Laughing Place 1987 Whiting Award in Fiction 1984 Rinehart Award for Fiction Works Anthologies Stories and essays References External links Whiting Foundation Profile People from Aiken, South Carolina 1947 births 20th-century American novelists University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni University of Iowa alumni State University of New York at Geneseo faculty Murray State University faculty Ohio University faculty Georgia State University faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers Kentucky women writers Novelists from Ohio Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Kentucky Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) American women academics