Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 in
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, in western South Carolina. It is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the Sout ...
) is an American
novelist
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and
short story writer
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.
Life
Durban graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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and from the
University of Iowa
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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
The State University of New York College at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo State College or, colloquially, "Geneseo") is a public liberal arts college in Geneseo, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The colle ...
,
Murray State University
Murray State University (MSU) is a public university in Murray, Kentucky. In addition to the main campus in Calloway County in southwestern Kentucky, Murray State operates extended campuses offering upper level and graduate courses in Paducah, H ...
, and
Ohio University
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. She was also founding co-editor, along with
David Bottoms
David Bottoms (born 1949 in Canton, Georgia) is an American poet.
Biography
Bottoms' first book, ''Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump'', was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American ...
of ''Five Points.''
She taught at
Georgia State University
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from 1986 to 2001 and at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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from 2001.
Her work has appeared in ''Blackbird Review'',
''
Tri-Quarterly
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'', ''
Crazyhorse'', the ''
Georgia Review
''The Georgia Review'' is a literary journal based in Athens, Georgia. Founded at University of Georgia in 1947, the journal features poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, and visual art. The journal has won National Magazine Awards for Fiction ...
'', ''
The Southern Review
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'', ''
Epoch
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The moment of epoch is usually decided by ...
'', ''The New Virginia Review'', and ''The Ohio Review''.
Awards
* 2001
Lillian Smith Book Award
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for ''So Far Back''
* 1994
Townsend Prize for ''The Laughing Place''
* 1987
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
in Fiction
* 1984 Rinehart Award for Fiction
Works
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References
External links
Whiting Foundation Profile
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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