MIKITA BROTTMAN is a nonfiction author and psychoanalyst whose acclaimed books include Seventeen Blows, Guilty Creatures, Couple Found Slain, and the Gold Dagger Award finalist, An Unexplained Death. A professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she previously worked in forensic psychiatric facilities and the Maryland prison system. She lives in Baltimore and can be found online at mikitabrottman.com.