She is a member of the country trio Pistol Annies, which was formed in 2011 with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe, and has released two solo albums, American Middle Class (2014) and Wrangled (2017).

The three artists began working together writing songs, which would later become Pistol Annies' debut album Hell on Heels, released on August 23, 2011.

On June 17, 2013, the RIAA announced that the album and single for Hell on Heels had both sold in excess of 500,000 copies, giving Pistol Annies their first Gold Record.

In 2014 Presley released her solo album American Middle Class, co-produced with her husband Jordan Powell.

Presley started work as a songwriter in Nashville in 2002, and later wrote the song "Knocked Up" from her own personal experience of being pregnant and unmarried.