Mikita Brottman is a British American non-fiction author, scholar, and psychoanalyst. Her writing blends a number genres: autobiography, psychoanalysis, forensics, and literary history. She is the author of many books, both academic and commercial, and her most recent work involves a reconsideration of the true crime genre. Thirteen Girls (Nine-Banded Books, 2012) is a story cycle of fictionalized narratives told by the victims of real crimes.

The Maximum Security Book Club (Harper Collins, 2016) recounts her experience running a reading group at a men's maximum security prison. Her new work of true crime, An Unexplained Death (Henry Holt, 2018), was described by Kirkus Reviews as "a compelling, often creepy book." Brottman is a literature professor in the humanities department at the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore.