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.
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] 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.