Sapha Burnell

“Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion.”

— David Roomy

Strong, Brave, Beautiful.

I'm Sapha (@usurperkings on socials), a cyberpunk + mythpunk science fiction author, poet & artist based out of Canada's West Coast. I teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down, and ever since I dream of taking a sledge hammer to beige, greige and white walls. My Beautiful Machines are my family, as I write about genetic engineering, magic realism, cosmology, artificial intelligence & a tangle of mythological gods and monsters. A gigantic geek & gamer girl, I stream on Twitch, chat on Discord and am in a perpetual state of odd lipstick colours & mirrored shades.

William Gibson and Bach's Cantatas are my kryptonite.

That first Vader Breath... it never left me.