Ethan Brown

Ethan Brown is the author of four investigative reporting-driven books about crime and the criminal legal system: Murder in the Bayou, Queens Reigns Supreme, Snitch, and Shake the Devil Off. He has written for New York magazine, The New York Observer, Wired, GQ, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice. He also worked for nearly a decade as a mitigation specialist for attorneys representing indigent defendants facing the death penalty in the Deep South and elsewhere. Currently, Ethan is Enterprise Editor of The Appeal, which produces original journalism about the most significant drivers of mass incarceration, state and local criminal legal systems. A five part docu-series based on Murder in the Bayou premiered on Showtime on September 13, 2019.