Kiki Petrosino (born 1979) is an American poet and professor of poetry. She currently teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has previously taught at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, and Spalding University, also in Louisville. Reviewers have praised Petrosino's use of repetition and unconventional hyphenation in conjunction with traditional poetic forms such the sestina. Petrosino has cited her familiarity with the Italian language and its comparative inflexibility as inspiration for her play with English.