“From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus mc standing center ring.”

My poetic literary debut, Usurper Kings is an inspection of the feminine through time and in five Acts. In an investigation of various structures, forms and rhythms, Usurper Kings dives through stages of womanhood in various cultures and time periods, until finally closing out with a futurist’s exegesis on what happens after we all upload into the Great but Beautiful Machine.