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Alexandra Attkisson Petri (, born March 15, 1988) is an American humorist, newspaper columnist, and 2025 recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In 2010, she became the youngest person to have a column in The Washington Post. Petri runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Trump was miscategorized as news and included in one of the White House's daily press briefings. She was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.
In December 2015, Petri created the parody Twitter account "Emo Kylo Ren", which envisioned the character Kylo Ren as an angsty teenager obsessed with Darth Vader. The account went viral after being retweeted by Hot Topic and receiving attention from media outlets such as USA Today and People Magazine, soon gaining more followers than Hot Topic. During the 8th Shorty Awards in 2016, the account won the award for best parody account. Petri revealed that she created this parody account in an interview with Syfy published on January 25, 2018.
Of her writing, Petri has said, "My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far no one has." Writers and comedians she has listed as influences include James Thurber, Dave Barry, Mitch Hedberg, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and William Shakespeare.
She made her comic book debut by writing the one-shot She-Hulk Annual #1, released on August 28, 2019.
In June 2020, Petri released her second book, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, a collection of essays on the Trump presidency years. In April 2023, she released her third book Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up), which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The Atlantic announced that it hired her in May 2025.
Personal life
In June 2018, Petri married Stephen Stromberg, an editorial writer at the Washington Post. They welcomed their first child in February 2022. They welcomed their second child in January 2025.
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