Robert Pringle

Thomas Robert Pringle (July 16, 1943 – August 31, 2012), known as Rob, was an American poet, schoolmaster, and park ranger.

Of Scottish descent, Pringle was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Westerville High School at Westerville, Ohio, in 1961. He continued his education at Ohio State University for his first degree, then at Ashland University for graduate studies.

Until 1987, Pringle was a schoolteacher, teaching English literature and biology in the Westerville City high schools. After that, he concentrated on writing poetry, but 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. Orbis, Envoi, Green's Magazine, Lilliput Review, and many others. and Inventing God (2008).

In 2004, Pringle’s poem "Ricardo Klement Speaks of Border Wars" won the First Prize in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition.

Poetry collections Cold Front (Pudding House Publications, 1998) Inventing God (Pudding House Publications, 2008, )