A former reporter, Dr. Hopton covered courts, cops, and crime for a Florida newspaper, and later worked as a Communication Director for multiple elected officials. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. “Woman” is her first full-length work of nonfiction. Presently, she is working on a second work of historical nonfiction chronicling a series of crimes committed by women after the civil war in the Victorian South.