John Petrov is a Ukrainian American fantasy author and former metallurgist whose work welds folklore to smoke and steel. Raised between Cleveland and Kyiv, he studied materials science before apprenticing in a small forge that supplied theater armor, an experience that informs his industrial magic worlds.
He is the author of the Ironbound Duology (Winter Anvil, 2019; Wolf at the Crucible, 2021), the standalone novel The Ashen Map (2022), and the story collection The Gloamwright (2020). His fiction has received the Brass Lantern Award and was shortlisted for the North Coast Book Prize. John Petrov lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches community workshops on mythic worldbuilding and knife-making.
