Career
Of Scottish descent and originally from Ohio, from 1962 to 1987 Pringle was a schoolteacher, teaching English and biology in high schools. Since then he has concentrated on poetry, but has also worked as a park ranger at the Inniswood Metro Gardens, as a rural mail carrier, a laboratory technician in bacteriology, a house painter, and as an attendant in a mental hospital. In 1998 he was the joint owner of a herd of Alpine goats.
His poems have been published in Orbis, Envoi, Green"s Magazine, Onionhead Literary Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Lilliput Review, Psychopoetica, and Pegasus Review.