Alejandra Petrov is an Argentine-Russian writer and art historian whose work blends maritime folklore with the quiet terrors of museum basements. Born in Mar del Plata and raised between Buenos Aires and Kaliningrad, she studied conservation science at the University of Amsterdam and later worked as a registrar for small galleries along the Noordzeekanaal, cataloging shipwreck timbers and salt-bitten devotional panels.
Her fiction often explores the afterlives of objects and the bargains struck in damp places. She is the author of the gothic novels The Salt Bride (2019) and Winter Quay (2022), and a recipient of the Buenos Aires Book Prize finalist citation for emerging voices in speculative literature. Essays and short stories have appeared in the independent magazines Brackish Waters and Orbital Window. Alejandra Petrov lives in Utrecht, where she teaches workshops on material culture and narrative, and spends too much time in archives handling things that whisper when no one else is listening.
