Silo City Reading Series: Michael McGriff, Cindy Juyong Ok, Sun June, Ariel Aberg-Riger

Featured Artists

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  Ariel Aberg-Riger Visual Storyteller
  

  Ariel Aberg-Riger

  Visual Storyteller

  Ariel Aberg-Riger is a visual storyteller who believes in the power of melding forms and morphing mediums to tell expansive narratives. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Teen Vogue, and her debut book America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History met with critical acclaim (2023 Kirkus Prize, 2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist, multiple Best Book of the Year as well as Best Book of the *21st Century* lists). Beyond the page, she’s performed her visual stories with the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall, projected them onto the side of an abandoned grain elevator, exhibited them in galleries, painted them throughout towns as murals, and mailed them across the country as the co-founder of the Buffalo Correspondance School. She lives with her wife and two kids in Los Angeles, California.

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  Cindy Juyoung Ok Poet
  

  Cindy Juyoung Ok

  Poet

  CINDY JUYOUNG OK is a writer, an editor, and an educator. Her debut poetry collection, Ward Toward, won the 2023 Yale Younger Poets Prize. A MacDowell Fellow, her poems have been published in The Nation, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Ok was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022-2023.

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  Michael McGriff Poet
  

  Michael McGriff

  Poet

  MICHAEL McGRIFF is the author of five poetry collections, Angel Sharpening its Beak, Eternal Sentences, Early Hour, Home Burial, and Dismantling the Hills. His other books include the linked story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies (co-authored with J.M. Tyree); an edition of David Wevill’s essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire; and a translation of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola. He co-directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.

  He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his work has been honored with a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice,” a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Bookforum, The Believer, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and PBS NewsHour. In addition to serving as co-director of the creative writing program at the University of Idaho, he works as an at-large editor for The Northwest Review.

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  Sun June Band
  

  Sun June

  Band

  SUN JUNE is an Austin-based regret pop band. Their latest record Bad Dream Jaguar is out from Run For Cover Records.