Erin Pringle

Erin Pringle-Toungate (born 1981 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is a United States fiction writer.

Career

Pringle-Toungate grew up in Casey, Illinois and initially studied at Columbia College Chicago in their fiction-writing program, before transferring to study literature and creative writing at Indiana State University, where she had taken classes in high school.[1][2] She also has a Master of Fine Arts from Texas State University in San Marcos.[2]

Pringle is the author of two collections of stories, three chapbooks, and over fifty stories. Her short fiction has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, named a notable Best American Nonrequired Reading (2007), and in 2012, she was awarded a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship.[3] She was shortlisted for the Charles Pick Fellowship in 2007 and was a finalist for the Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest and the Kore Press Short Fiction Award in 2012.[2]

Her sister, Jennifer Rardin, was an American urban fantasy author of the Jaz Parks series.[4][5]

Pringle lives in Spokane, WA with her partner Heather and son, Henry.[2]

Published books
  • (2017) The Whole World at Once, West Virginia University Press (ISBN 1943665575)
  • (2009) The Floating Order, Two Ravens Press (ISBN 1906120420)

References
  1. "Book Review: The Great Escape". Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  2. "About Her". www.erinpringle.com. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  3. "Artist Profile - Artist Trust". Artist Trust. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  4. Speakman, Shawn (22 September 2010). "R.I.P. Jennifer Rardin | Suvudu". Suvudu. Random House. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2010-10-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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