Pam DurbanPAM DURBAN is the author of The Laughing Place, which won the 1994 Townsend Prize for Fiction. In addition, Durban is the recipient of the 1988 Whiting Writer's Award and the 1984 Rinehart Award in Fiction. Her stories, which have appeared in uch publications as Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, and the Georgia Review, have been widely anthologized. She teaches at Georgia State University. Read More Read Less