She conducts research on Leonid Dobycin, a Russian narrator from the first half of the twentieth century, and his influence can be seen in her work.
[10] In 2005, Crocetti Editore published her poetry collection Altri Fuochi ("Other Fireworks", "Other Fires", or "Other Lights") with an introduction by Stephanie Sandler.
[2] The next year, it was translated into Serbian by Miriana Petrovich, and went on to win the first prize at the Tre'ci Trg Festival in Belgrade.
[13] In 2011, she won the Special Prize at the Torino Film Festival’s Sixth Annual National Mother Language Literary Competition for her short story A Dog Day, written in Italian.
[21][22] Petrova's poetry, translations, and prose have been published in the main Russian literary magazines: Znamya, Zvezda, and Zerkalo.