Zoe Rodriguez is a junior at Waltham High School and it is her first year as a part of The Talon Tribune. She loves to write creatively and has been writing since she was a little kid. Zoe is the 2022 winner of The New York Times Learning Network 100-Word Personal Narrative Contes and has been published a few times as a finalist in the New York Times editorial contest, the National Cricket Magazine and the UPenn Perspectives Journal. She also loves to play piano and sing with the Showband, acts in school plays and musicals, paints and swims. Although she enjoys journalism, her beginnings were in creative writing and she loves storytelling and making things up.