Susan Mikula (born March 7, 1958) is a photographer and artist from the United States. Mikula held her first solo photographic show in 1998, after years of working in the art sector and sitting on an art jury.
She creates her images using vintage equipment such as pinhole cameras and Polaroid cameras. Mikula has been married to political broadcaster Rachel Maddow for many years.
Susan Mikula was born in New Jersey and moved to New Hampshire as a child. She began teaching herself photography at a young age. Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, was her alma mater.
Mikula’s sister is a Boston-based medical photographer. Mikula had been married to current MSNBC analyst Rachel Maddow for many years. They first met in 1999, when Maddow was finishing her Ph.D. dissertation.
Mikula hired Maddow to work on her yard, and the two began dating. Their first date was at the National Rifle Association’s “Ladies Day on the Range” event. They live in a pre-Civil War home in Western Massachusetts and an apartment in Manhattan’s West Village.
Rachel Maddow reported in November 2020 that Mikula had COVID-19 and had recovered.
