Bella Rotker

Bella Rotker is a sophomore at the Interlochen Arts Academy where she majors in creative writing. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up in Miami, FL from the age of three. She has received recognition from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was a finalist in the Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest. She won the Haley Naughton Memorial Scholarship to Iowa Young Writers Studio, and her work has appeared in The Red Wheelbarrow and Crashtest. Bella can usually be found trying (and failing) to pet bunnies, pressing flowers, or staring wistfully at bodies of water