Petrus' piece
There Are Other Worlds was performed at
Intermedia Arts in 2015. She and Erik Ehn co-wrote
Queen, which was performed at
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in 2016. This poem was contributed to the anthology
How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation by
Maureen Johnson, which was released in 2018. Her 2019 novel,
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, In February 2021, Petrus announced that she was working on a film adaptation of the novel. In the wake of the
murder of George Floyd, Petrus wrote a short prose piece entitled "Sweetness for George". Petrus' works incorporate themes such as black diasporic futurism, female friendships, queerness, black community, identity, and healing. She is inspired by her mother,
Al Green, nature, and women. Petrus is an affiliated writer of
The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. Along with Erin Sharkey, she co-founded the group Free Black Dirt, a collective of writers and creators who seek to "spark and engage in critical conversations". The group organizes events to showcase original performance and theatre works by emerging artists. Petrus describes herself as a "pleasure activist"; she claims her art has "healing power" and relates to themes involving desire and pleasure. She has written about her pleasure activist work in
Adrienne Maree Brown's book
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, which explains pleasure activism as making social justice work "the most pleasurable human experience." == Awards ==