Sep 24 2026 @ 7:00PM
You can buy (or win!) our next storyteller’s memoir First in the Family at the show as part of this special QUEENS Bookend Event for the Brooklyn Book Festival. Don’t forget to RSVP for the show here.
Learn more about Jessica Hoppe below and click here to check out all the other great Bookend Events being held across the five boroughs leading up to the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer and the author of First in the Family (Flatiron Books, 2024), which was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and selected by Esquire, People, San Francisco Chronicle, Marie Claire, Latina Media, and HipLatina as one of the best books of 2024.
Named a writer to watch by Publishers Weekly (Fall 2024), Hoppe’s work has appeared in the Latino Book Review, The New York Times, Vogue, and elsewhere. Hoppe is Assistant Director for the Columbia Artist/Teachers Incarcerated Writers Initiative, the Justice-In-Education Initiative, and an inaugural NYWBA Justice Reads Fellow. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia University.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program) grant.
