Ahmed Petrov is a Russian Tatar American writer and former crime reporter. Born in Kazan in 1985, he immigrated to Detroit at twelve, learned English on city buses along Woodward Avenue, and studied journalism at Wayne State University before earning a master's in criminal justice from Michigan State. He spent a decade covering homicide courts and missing-persons cases for regional newspapers, work that sharpened his eye for procedure and the quiet drama of small cities in winter. After teaching narrative nonfiction workshops at Northern Michigan University, Petrov moved to Toronto, where he splits his time between freelance translation and writing. He speaks Russian and Tatar, is partial to hockey rinks and long, dark shorelines, and lives with his partner and a rescue husky named Kiva.
