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
Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022
JAKE, 2023
Love poem with copper pennies
Eunoia Review, 2024
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
Aubade for the guy at the Wawa who said he’d be kicking himself forever if he didn’t give me his number (Bella Rotker)
Rejection Letters, 2023
under cover of night
fifth wheel press, 2023
Hindsight
fifth wheel press, 2023
Creation Myth
The Interlochen Review, 2024
This, too, is grief; Sonnet On The Occasion Of The 4th Indictment Of The 45th President Of The United States, Inmate No. PO1135809 AKA Sonnet As Ode To Donald John Trump’s Mugshot
And Gallons
Becoming Weightless
Gone Lawn
Dinner Table II
The Acentos Review, 2024