Novelist-poet Vanna Bonta is the author of FLIGHT: a Quantum Fiction novel, four books of prize-winning poems, various essays, screenplays, short fiction, and music. Bonta is best known as the creator of the Flight novel character Aira Flight, an amnesiac wonder-girl with no navel/ As an actress she appears in a cameo as Zed's Queen in the fantasy film The Beastmaster, and is a multi-lingual voice-artist who has steadily performed narration and voice acting in many major feature films and television.

Readers can expect a blend of playful irreverence steeped in classic precision that is authentic and original writing. Bonta's themes of love, life, nature, and struggles of human life share a core perspective of humanity's place in the cosmos.

Flight, Bonta's debut novel weaves mundane aspects of human life and ordeals into cosmic fabric, and is noted for coining the term "quantum fiction" to describe a new genre of fiction that involves life as a metaverse where thought and physics intersect to create multiple-dimensioned reality. Starring Aira Flight, the soulful and innocent heroine who mysteriously lacks a navel, Flight continues to gain worldwide fans in all camps and age groups since first published in 1995, and received enthusiastic praise from Publishers Weekly, the American Library Association Booklist, and other trade reviews. The hardcover edition was followed by a paperback release, and the story became available as an ebook in 2003, increasing its popularity as technology advances and the term "quantum reality" becomes a catch phrase. An unabridged audio book edition was released in 2008. Narrated by Bonta herself, who brings years of professional voice-over artistry experience to the work, the audiobook has received more positive trade reviews.

Bonta's family has a history of literature and art. Her literary life is rooted in her earliest memories of her grandfather, noted Italian writer Luigi Ugolini, who routinely recited Dante and read classic poetry and fiction after lunch. Bonta still has her first rejection slip, received from a New York publisher to whom she submitted her poetry when six years old. When she was nine, she published her first collection of poetry with a preface written by her grandfather. Flight blossoms from these poetic roots.

Bonta wrote her first novel at age eleven. She has since been awarded two literary medals in Italy and has been published in several anthologies. STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry selected a Vanna Bonta story ("Somewhen") for the Star Trek: The Next Generation series. (The Bible from the TV show is a cherished treasure in Bonta's library.) Roddenberry predicted that one day she would create her own literary worlds.

Though Bonta admits she's not a fanatic of science fiction or any one genre, her passionate interests in outer space, mechanics (she rebuilt a car engine), physics, and the human relationship to the cosmos appear as themes in the stories she's been writing since the age of six. Her signature cosmic view transcends political and religious divisions. She has childhood homes in Thailand and regularly sojourned in Tuscany, Italy, with her mother, a fine-arts painter. Her global influences include studies of Buddhism, Catholicism, and other ancient and modern religions.

Bonta is a pianist and did her own piano playing as well as narration in the audiobook version of her novel FLIGHT (2008). She has flown in zero-gravity and is noted for inventing the 2suit, a garment designed for intimacy in micro gravity environments. Bonta is editor-in-chief of The Cosmos Review, a literary publication celebrating poetry and space.

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What is Quantum Fiction?
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Vanna Bonta talks about quantum fiction

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