Pam Durban  Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer. 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".