Petra Kuppers (born 1 April 1968) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist.

She left Germany when she was 24 and then spent 10 years in Wales, where she learned about disability culture before moving to the United States.

Her book about how The Olimpias conducts research through artistic practices, "Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape," won the biennial Sally Banes Award from the American Association for Theatre Research.

[5] Kuppers is also the recipient of the President's Award for Art and Activism, Women Caucus for the Arts, awarded at the College ArtAssociation's National Meeting in New York City, 2015[6] Kuppers is widely published in journals that explore issues how disability engages with culture and the arts such as TDR: The Drama Review, About Performance, Liminalities, Afterimage, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and differences.

[9] She also co-authored the poetry collection Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (2008) with fellow disability culture activist Neil Marcus.