Sapphira Olson

Sapphira Olson is an author, artist and poet. Born in St Austell she lives in Liskeard in the UK. She has seven published novels, including Anna Newton Destroys The World, An Android Awakes, Fictional Alignment and The Dandelion Trilogy.

Nominated for the Galaxy British Book Awards and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, she has been a senior editor of The View From Here literary magazine and has interviewed authors such as Julian Barnes, Iain Banks and Markus Zusak.

An Android Awakes, a hybrid novel and graphic novel, was a best seller on Waterstones who stocked it in their flagship stores and was launched and featured at The Film and Comic Con in Brighton.

Sapphira also has a short story collection published by Elsewhen Press called Parables which was born out of her experiences and deconstruction from an evangelical church.

Her poetry collections Stanley Park and The Girl in the Garden have both been Number One Amazon bestsellers.

When not writing she loves spending time in the countryside and enjoys watching Audrey Hepburn movies and listening to Billie Eilish.

 


Cover: Umberto Amundsen
Parables, Sapphira’s new book, was published by Elsewhen Press in February 2019.

 



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      Sapphira can be contacted via Elsewhen Press using sapphira.olson (at) elsewhen.co.uk