“Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion.”
Sapha Burnell teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down. The product of Vancouver’s multiculturalism, Sapha steeped in divergent cultures, religious experiences and gender roles, until battling with traditional opinions became a daily war. On hiatus from the written word, she volunteered in West Africa, and returned to Canada with an international perspective.
Sapha’s 2014 debut poetry collection Usurper Kings was viewed by Huffington Post author & poet Kevin Hogan as “a work of jaw-droppingly beautiful discovery”.
The first novel in her cyberpunk series Neon Lieben hit August 2021, and has been called “a hauntingly beautiful work”.
RL Arenz III, author of Aegis defines Sapha’s style with his signature aplomb. “What she manages to do is tiptoe you on that line of emotional, gut wrenching scenes which can bring you to the brink of hysteria. And with a sentence from a character she offers that breath of humour that pulls you back from the brink. Then dropkicks you over the ledge when you thought you were safe. An insane, diabolical, kick-ass rollercoaster.”
Sapha lives in BC with their spouse and speaks on cyberpunk, mythpunk, martial arts, comparative mythology & religion, when the #hallowesfam isn’t chatting it up on discord or twitch.
