Erin Pringle
Author of The Floating Order
About the Author
Erin Pringle is the author of The Floating Order. Her work has been selected as a Best American Notable Non-Required Reading, shortlisted for the Charles Pick Fellowship, and a finalist for contests such as the Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest and the Kore Press Short Fiction Award. She was show more awarded a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship, which she used to write and revise many of these stories. Learn more at erinpringle.com. show less
Image credit: Erin Pringle Photo by Grace June 2019
Works by Erin Pringle
Unexpected Weather Events 1 copy
Associated Works
Box Of Delights — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Toungate, Erin
- Other names
- Pringle-Toungate, Erin
- Birthdate
- 1981-09-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
- Places of residence
- Illinois, USA
Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA
Spokane, Washington, USA - Education
- Indiana State University (BS)
Texas State University (MFA) - Occupations
- writing teacher
tennis instructor
novelist
short-story writer - Relationships
- Rardin, Jennifer (sister)
- Awards and honors
- Artist Trust Fellowship (2012)
Members
Reviews
Awards
Statistics
- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 29
- Popularity
- #460,290
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 5
- Favorited
- 1
- Touchstones
- 4
Hezada! fits easily into my favorite classification. The characters seem real, not flat representations of some type of human or a personification of some specific trait. The story revolves around the well developed characters. I like the Midwestern setting but it's not a breezy, happy tale of small town Midwestern life some plot twists thankfully prevent things from things from being clear and simple. The aging performers in the shrinking circus could be be depressing but the circus manages to maintain its dignity.
No spoilers but small town life is dying. The small traveling circus is no longer. Yet the flawed people who live in small towns and those who once ran the circus will carry on and help each other.… (more)