Bella Rotker is a proud Venezuelan and 305 local. A six-time YoungArts winner and Best of The Net nominee, her work appears in Fifth Wheel Press, JAKE, Best American High School Writing (2022 & 2023), and others. When she’s not writing or making shadow puppets, Bella’s thinking about cafecitos and bodies of water. Find her online at bit.ly/bellarotker

Selected work
- Poetry
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Love poem with copper pennies
Eunoia Review, 2024

Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022
JAKE, 2023

The cuyahoga river caught fire at least twelve times
Eunoia Review, 2024

Self portrait while making the annual turkey broth
Art In Your Inbox

We're Vomiting At The Bowling Alley
2022

I consider the fact that joining Merricat on the moon would be pretty fun
The Bitchin’ Kitsch, 2025

Florida Poem
DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, 2023

I’m saying this because you have a new girlfriend and I’ve been thinking about Carolyn Forché
Olney Magazine

Self portrait while visiting my childhood dog’s grave
Neologism Poetry Journal, 2023

Love Poem for Blucifer
Unstamatic

BETWEEN THE GHOST OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE
Full Mood Mag