Rebeka Kupihár

Rebeka Kupihár (born in Eger, Hungary, in 1999) is a Budapest-based poet and psychologist. Her work explores queer intimacy, female sexuality, fertility, Christianity and their political dimensions. She studied psychology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest between 2018 and 2023 and is currently training in counselling psychology.

Her debut poetry collection, A heterók istenéhez (To the God of Heteros), was published by Magvető in 2024. In 2023, she received the György Petri Prize and the Panodyssey Prize and was awarded the Péter Horváth Fellowship for her first book. In 2025, she gave an opening speech at Budapest Pride.

She is a member of the feminist collective nemmondommeg, with whom she presents performative readings. She works across poetry, performance and visual art. Her collage related to Hannah Arendt is included in the group exhibition Freundschaft in finsteren Zeiten at Literaturhaus Stuttgart. She is currently working on the documentary film project Heroines of Hope, produced by Elemag Pictures (Gera, Germany) and Plan C Filmproduktion (Vienna, Austria), in which she appears as one of the protagonists.