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Alexandra Okatova has graduated from the Moscow Institute of Engineers in Geodesy, Aerophotography and Cartography with the Diploma with honours. She worked at the Mapping Production Association «Kartografya» as a compiler of geographical maps, editor and chief of the department. From 1996 to 2005 she has been working as an editor-in-chief at the private publishing house «Dizayn. Informatsiya. Kartografya». Due to her help such scientific and educational atlases as «Atlas mira. Evropa», «Istoriko-kul’turnyy Atlas Komi», «Istoriko-kul’turnyy Atlas Buryatii», school geographical atlases and «Bolshoy Atlas Rossii» were published. In 2006 she has changed her life dramatically: she joined to the Creative Association of Contemporary Artists.

She writes stories and fairy tales with a slight touch of philosophy.

In 2013 the books: «Inapproachable Princess» and «The Prince on The Pea», a book of poems «Dead Leaves» were published.

In 2014 she finished the I. A. Bunin Higher Literature Courses. She is a member of Writers Union of Russia and member of International Writers Union.

In 2014 in the series «The Contemporaries and Classics» her book «The House on the Boundaries of the Worlds» was published and in 2015 Alexandra Okatova became a laureate of Moscow prize in nomination «Fiction» (named after Mikhail Bulgakov). The novel «Guardian Demon» was published in collection «The five unique writers», three stories were included to the collection the MTA-5, and Alexandra Okatova became the winner of the First Alternative International Competition «The new name in Fiction» in «Favorite» nomination. She won award of Moscow Literature Prize and Adam Mitskevich Medal. Alexandra Okatova’s book «The Queen of the Night» was published in a series «Sergey Lukyanenko presents a writer».