Mikita's profile
Mikita Brottman, described by the New York Times Book Review as "one of today's finest practitioners of nonfiction," is the author of COUPLE FOUND SLAIN: AFTER A FAMILY MURDER (Henry Holt, 2021), which "offers a precise and rarely seen accounting of American hospitals for the criminally insane…and shows the compounding injustice that results when the criminal mental health system is layered on top of mass incarceration.” Her book AN UNEXPLAINED DEATH: THE TRUE STORY OF A BODY AT THE BELVEDERE was short-listed for the Golden Dagger Award in Nonfiction Crime Writing, and used as the basis for an episode of UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.
Mikita is the author of twelve critically-acclaimed books, including THE MAXIMUM SECURITY BOOK CLUB: READING LITERATURE IN A MEN'S PRISON (HarperCollins 2016), an account of two years spent teaching literature at the Jessup Correctional Institute, outside Baltimore. She has a particular interest in reconsidering and interrogating the true crime genre in order to question the binary of victim versus perpetrator. Her work in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and the courts have given her special insight into the lives of those in the custody of the state.
Mikita has a Ph.D in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and is a certified psychoanalyst. She is a full faculty professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Mikita is the author of twelve critically-acclaimed books, including THE MAXIMUM SECURITY BOOK CLUB: READING LITERATURE IN A MEN'S PRISON (HarperCollins 2016), an account of two years spent teaching literature at the Jessup Correctional Institute, outside Baltimore. She has a particular interest in reconsidering and interrogating the true crime genre in order to question the binary of victim versus perpetrator. Her work in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and the courts have given her special insight into the lives of those in the custody of the state.
Mikita has a Ph.D in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and is a certified psychoanalyst. She is a full faculty professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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