Martin Piekar was born to Polish parents in Germany in 1990. In 2012, he won the Open Mike award for poetry and has since received several distinctions for his work like Irseer Pegasus and Alfred-Gruber-Preis, both 2018. His first volume of poems titled Bastard Echo was published by Verlagshaus Berlin in 2014 and was followed by his second volume AmokperVers in 2018. Martin Piekars poetry crosses intercultural boundaries, emotionally grapples with personal development and explores the possibilities of subjectivity in a political realm. In 2023 his third collection of poetry named livestream & leichen was published and he won two awards (the Kelag-Preis and the audience award) at the prominent “Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur” in Klagenfurt.