Grace Arenas

Grace Arenas is a poet who received her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2017. Her chapbook, they’ll outlive you all, was published in late 2017 with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Malarkey Books, Theta Wave, and others. She currently lives and teaches in Boston.

Reading List

The freezers that Trader Joe’s uses are called “coffin freezers”

Grace Arenas  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

You can’t always be in the mood for seasonal vegetables, nor is there justification for the quantity of frozen cauliflower rice in your fridge. Someone once told me I couldn’t use the word fridge in a poem, and there’s no justification for that, either. Be a pal and hand me a paring knife. Etched into […]

If a springbok were to compete on Season 24 of ABC’s The Bachelor

Grace Arenas  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

the captive us at home, belegging-ed, would marvel at her ability to eat her fellow contestants’ succulents right out of their rose-gold pots, this being her primary water supply. We would seethe as the women seethe at her slenderness, and thus her inherent ability to pull off festival wear. She’s here for the Right Reasons: […]