Peter Zavada was born in 1982 in Budapest. He holds degrees in English and Italian from ELTE University and Theatre Studies from the Károli Gáspár Protestant University in Budapest. He is currently a Phd student in ELTE's Esthetics Doctotal Programme. His plays have been performed in the Katona József, Belvárosi and Trafó theatres in Budapest. He’s been publishing poems since 2009, in such Hungarian literary journals as Jelenkor, Élet és Irodalom and Műút. His first collection of poems, Ahol Megszakad, was published by Libri in Budapest in 2012, followed by Mész in 2015, and Roncs szélárnyékban in 2017. In the same year he received the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship. In 2019 he participated in the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.