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  <name><![CDATA[Pamela Erens]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Pamela Erens's novel, &lt;i&gt;The Understory&lt;/i&gt;, published in 2007, was the winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Pamela's short fiction has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in &lt;i&gt;Chicago Review, Boston Review, The Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Upstreet, Skidrow Penthouse,&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Redivider&lt;/i&gt;, and the short-story anthology &lt;i&gt;Visiting Hours&lt;/i&gt;, edited by Dan Wickett (Press 53). 

Pamela is the recipient of two fellowships in fiction from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has also published poetry, essays, book criticism, and magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects. ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[John Cheever, Eudora Welty, George Eliot, Jane Bowles, James Salter]]></influences>          
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Understory]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fight for Freedom]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pamela Erens]]></name>
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  <published>1977</published>  
  
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