Katie Rose Guest Pryal earned her AB from Duke University and her Master's Degree in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University, where she attended on a fellowship. She graduated from UNC School of Law in 2003 and then clerked for Judge Terrence Boyle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. After her clerkship, she earned her Doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she also attended on a fellowship.
Prior to coming to UNC Law, Professor Pryal taught as full-time faculty in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2007. She specialized in legal rhetoric and professional writing. In addition, she has taught first-year legal research and writing at Elon University School of Law, has led CLE seminars in writing, and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences. She is the author of A Short Guide to Writing About Law (Pearson 2010) and Core Grammar for Lawyers (Carolina Academic Press 2011), and she has another book forthcoming from Oxford University Press.