Yuki Petrov was born in 1983 in Vladivostok to a Japanese mother from Hokkaido and a Russian father who worked as a marine engineer. Raised between Sapporo and Sakhalin, Petrov studied modern Japanese history at Waseda University and completed an M.A. in Slavic and East Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. Before turning to fiction, Petrov worked as an archivist at the Yokohama Archives of History and researched dance ephemera from the 1930s–1960s. Petrov's essays on memory, place, and performance have appeared in small journals in Japan and Canada. Petrov lives in Vancouver, where they teach community writing workshops and collect 78 rpm records.
