Meg Arenz 

MFA Creative Writing, 2025 

A Promise 

Birdwatching 

Burning Barn 

In the Orange Fields 

When the Heart Doesn’t Want to Restart 

Meghan Olivia Arenz is a second-year creative writing MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, she now lives in Chicago, Illinois, because she cannot get enough of the Midwest. Her work has been published previously in Same Faces Collective and marrow.