Alexandra Gennadievna Petrova (Russian: ?????????? ??????????? ???????) (born 30 April 1964 in Leningrad) is a Russian poet and writer.
She graduated in the Faculty of Philology from the University of Tartu.
She lived in Jerusalem Israel from 1993 - 1998 and has lived in Rome since 1998.
She was a finalist for the Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and in 2008..
Laureate of Andrei Bely Prize in 2016 for her novel Appendix.
Her poetry and prose has been translated into Italian, English, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Slovak and Hebrew.In 2011, she participated in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.