Meet the Editors: Justice Reads 2025-2026 Fellows

Are you interested in submitting works of flash fiction, micro-essays, or poetry to be considered for publication by Justice Reads? Get to know our editors and 2025-2026 Justice Reads Fellows, Jessica Hoppe, Britt Middleton, and Rachel Mikita. We look forward to hearing from you!

Jessica Hoppe, Nonfiction

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. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia University.

Writers I love...
Tommy Orange, Leslie Jamison, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Angelica Villareal, Kiese Laymon, bell hooks, Arundhati Roy

What I look for in a submission...
I’m eager to read stories that are in conversation with ideas which expand the mind and heart through curiosity and endless complexity.

Britt Middleton, Fiction

Britt Middleton is a novelist, poet, and journalist from Los Angeles. Exploring pop culture, reproductive rights, and racial justice, her work has been published by Black Entertainment Television (BET Networks), Refinery29, Popsugar, NYLON, and internationally with Nine Network Australia, among others. She is an alum of the Yale Writers’ Workshop and a former finalist of Disney Entertainment Television’s Writing Program (Comedy). Britt is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University.

Writers I love...
Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Raven Leilani, and Bolu Babalola

What I look for in a submission...
I’m hungry for thoughtful narratives and incisive prose exploring personal identity.

Rachel Mikita, Poetry

Rachel Mikita is a writer & poet from Blacklick, PA, and Flint, TX. She was the winner of the Columbia Journal 2022 Print Poetry Contest, and a finalist for The Plentitudes 2023 Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Coal Hill Review, Thimble, and JMWW, and is forthcoming in Reed Magazine. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Columbia University.

Writers I love...
Anna Akhmatova, C.D. Wright, Louise Glück, Marianne Moore, Jack Gilbert, Joy Harjo, Aase Berg

What I look for in a submission...
I love writing that makes the familiar world strange, pushing us to reconsider what we think we know.

The 2025-2026 Justice Reads Fellowship is fiscally supported by the New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation.