Person An individual. Birth Date 1955-03-26 Birthplace Long Beach, California, United States Race/Ethnicity white (author) Gender Identity woman (author) Sexuality straight (author) Occupation author public speaker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hopkins, Ellen Description An account of the resource She is a poet, public speaker, author, and freelance writer who has written numerous <em>New York Times</em> bestselling YA novels. These include her novels written in verse, such as <em>Crank</em>, <em>Burned,</em> and <em>Glass</em>, which explore teenage drug addiction and mental illness. Her books are loosely based on her daughter's struggles with drug addiction. Type The nature or genre of the resource Person Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "About." <em>Ellen Hopkins,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.ellenhopkinsbooks.com/about.html">https://www.ellenhopkinsbooks.com/about.html</a>. Accessed 23 February 2022. Emily Huang (cataloguer, 2022) author public speaker straight (author) white (author) woman (author)