Erin Pringle-Toungate (born 1981) is an American fiction writer.
Career
editPringle-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
editPringle'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
edit- (2017) The Whole World at Once, West Virginia University Press (ISBN 1943665575)
- (2009) The Floating Order, Two Ravens Press (ISBN 1906120420)
References
edit- ^ "Book Review: The Great Escape". Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ^ a b c d "About Her". www.erinpringle.com. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ^ Speakman, Shawn (22 September 2010). "R.I.P. Jennifer Rardin | Suvudu". Suvudu. Random House. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Jennifer Rardin Obituary: View Jennifer Rardin's Obituary by Journal Gazette & Times-Courier". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ "Artist Profile - Artist Trust". Artist Trust. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
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