Petrov, Anna (b. 1985) is a Russian-born British novelist and former archivist whose work explores women's labor, migration, and the machinery of modern cities. Raised in Nizhny Novgorod and Hull, she studied history at the University of Leeds and earned an MA in public history from Royal Holloway. From 2010 to 2016 she worked in the archives of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, cataloging ship manifests, dock plans, and immigration records; later she taught part-time in adult education while researching industrial-era Britain. Her short fiction has appeared in small journals devoted to place and history, and she has been awarded regional fellowships for emerging writers. Petrov lives in Bristol with her partner, a teacher, and a retired greyhound, and she spends far too much time in reading rooms and on night ferries taking notes in pencil.
