Erin Pringle

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Erin Pringle-Toungate (born 1981) is an American fiction writer.

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Career

Pringle-Toungate was born 1981 in Terre Haute, Indiana. She 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 sister, Jennifer Rardin, was an American urban fantasy author of the Jaz Parks series. [3] [4]

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

Awards and honors

Pringle's 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. [5] 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]

Selected books

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References

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