Pam Durban

writer

Pam Durban's books include a collection of short stories, "All Set About with Fever", "Trees", and two novels, *The Laughing Place*, and *So Far Bac*k. Her short story, "Soon," appeared in *The Best American Short Stories of the Century*, edited by John Updike, and her work has been anthologized in *The Best American Short Stories 1997* . She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award as well as a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa. Her novel *So Far Back* received the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. Her short story "The Jap Room" received the 2008 Goodheart Prize from Shenandoah. She was a founding editor of *Five Points* magazine and served for five years as fiction editor of that publication. She is the Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Universities of North Carolina.