Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins in 2005. Photo by Larry D. Moore, used under CC BY-SA 3.0

Ellen Hopkins is an American freelance writer. She is mostly famous for her verse novels, or narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry. All of which are about everything crapsack in the teenage world. All of her books are serious Doorstoppers. Debuted with Crank, a novel based on her daughter's experience with crystal meth.

Works written by Ellen Hopkins include:
  • Crank (2004)
  • Burned (2006)
  • Glass (2007)
  • Impulse (2007)
  • Identical (2008)
  • Tricks (2009)
  • Fallout (2010)
  • Perfect (2011)
  • Triangles (2011)
  • Tilt (scheduled for release in 2012)
Ellen Hopkins provides examples of the following tropes: