Alexandra Gennadievna Petrova (Russian: Александра Геннадиевна Петрова) (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 to 1998 and has lived in Rome since 1998. She was a finalist for the Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and in 2008 and a Laureate of the Prize in 2016 for her novel Appendix. Her poetry and prose have been translated into Italian, English, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Slovak and Hebrew.