About Mikita

Baltimore City
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… more