Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta is an American novelist, essayist and poet, and the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel, which Publishers Weekly reviewed as the first definitive work of "quantum fiction," an emerging 21st century literary genre. A haiku by Bonta is among the top five selected onboard a NASA spacecraft (MAVEN), which launched from Cape Canaveral to the planet Mars in November 2013.
Bonta began writing poetry and short fiction at age six. She has ridden camels in Egypt's Sahara Desert, elephants in Thailand, learned sharp-shooting from her father at age nine and by age eleven had traveled around the world twice and spoke four languages.
As an actress, Bonta cameos as the superhero's young mother in the classic fantasy movie, The Beastmaster. She has worked as a voice actor on numerous feature movies and television. One of her stories was purchased for Star Trek:The Next Generation.
The History Channel followed her into zero gravity to test a spacesuit she invented. In the The Universe TV episode, Bonta talked about humanity colonizing planets beyond Earth. The program depicted a futuristic scenario of a mother reading Bonta's novel Flight in a space station orbiting Earth.
The Bonta signature voice celebrates human-centric themes that knit cultural differences with universality. Her stories juxtapose the everyday and the cosmos.
“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”
“Which came first — the observer or the particle?”
“The illusion is we are only physical.”
“There is no hospitality like understanding.”
“Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.”
“Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.”
“Money is only a human invention.”
“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”
“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
“She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.”
“There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.”
“Love is a quality, not a quantity.”
“The true poem rests between the words.”
“Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.”
“Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.”