Alexandra Petrova was born in Saint Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied in Tartu, and in 1993 she immigrated to Jerusalem. Since 1998 she has lived in Rome. Her three volumes of poetry are Liniia otryva (Point of Detachment or Edge of the Precipice, 1994), Vid na zhitel’stvo (License to Live, Residence Permit or A View on Existence, with introduction by Alexandr Goldshtejn, 1999), Tol’ko derevia (Only the trees, introduction by Stephanie Sandler, 2008). In 2001, she published a philosophical operetta entitled Pastukhi Dolly (The Shepherd of Dolly), a play in ten acts that recounts a tale of cloning in pastoral terms. Her works have been published in leading Russian magazines, such as Znamia, Mitin zhurnal, Zerkalo, and Zvezda. Her prose and poems have been translated into several languages. She was short-listed for the Andrei Belyj Prize in 1999 and in 2008.
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| The Poetry Project's 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon | New York, NY | |
| This is the Year: Book Launch with Gloria Muñoz | St. Petersburg, FL | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: J. Mae Barizo, Dorothea Lasky, Maggie Millner, & Estha Weiner | New York, NY | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Rio Cortez, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Wood Lynn, and John Yau | New York, NY | |
| H. G. Dierdorff & Erika Howsare | Charlottesville, VA | |
| Woodland Pattern's 31st Annual Poetry Marathon | Milwaukee, WI | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, Shane McCrae, & Evie Shockley | New York, NY | |
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