Education
She graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Ohio University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998.
She graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Ohio University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998.
She is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville, Pennsylvania. She was a staff photographer at the Fort Pierce Tribune, and the Journal Newspapers in Alexandria, Virginia.
In 1994, she became a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Rial also worked as a senior photojournalist at the Street (now the Tampa Bay Times) from 2006 to 2009. In 2005, she had a gallery show at The Mattress Factory.