Mikita Brottman

Mikita Brottman is a British American non-fiction author, scholar, and psychoanalyst known for her interest in true crime. Her writing blends a number of genres, often incorporating elements of autobiography, psychoanalysis, forensic psychology, and literary history.

The most consistent focus of Brottman’s work, however, is her reconsideration and transformation of the true crime genre. Thirteen Girls (Nine-Banded Books, 2012) is a story cycle of fictionalized narratives, each based on a real victim of a serial killer, each told from a different perspective.

According to a review of the book in Rain Taxi, “Brottman’s grimly pragmatic literary stance recalls such earlier artists of the quotidian macabre as Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’Connor: Thirteen Girls is an impressive successor to their stories of American dread.”

The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison (2016) describes Brottman’s relationship with nine inmates in a reading group she started at Jessup Correctional Institution, a men’s maximum security prison, and their reactions to the works of classic literature they read together.