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Vanna Bonta
File:Vanna Bonta 2009.sept15.jpg
Born (1958-04-03) April 3, 1958 (age 66)
Florence, Italy
OccupationWriter, author, poet, actor, songwriter
LanguageEnglish, Italian
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction, poetry, essay
Notable worksFlight: a quantum fiction novel,[1][2] 2suit
RelativesMaria Luisa Ugolini (mother), Luigi Ugolini (grandfather), Lydia Ugolini (aunt)


Vanna Bonta (born April 3, 1958) is an American novelist, essayist, actress and poet. She is best known for her 1995 Quantum fiction novel Flight[1][2][3] and her haiku selected in the Message-to-Mars contest by NASA for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission ( MAVEN) in August 2013. [4][5][6]. As an author of one of the top three winning haikus, her work has been sent to Mars aboard MAVEN on November 18, 2013.[7][8][9] She is also known today as the author who coined the genre Quantum fiction[10] including a multitude of titles.

Biography

Vanna Bonta is the daughter of Maria Luisa Ugolini Bonta, an Italian fine-art painter and a military officer, and the granddaughter of Luigi Ugolini.[11] Bonta began writing at an early age and is also known as an inventor. She appeared on the History Channel's Sex in space program. [12] As as an actress[13], she contributed to the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation[14], played Zed's Queen, a character in The Beastmaster, and lent her voice in the 1982 movie Beauty and the Beast (Disney).[13].

Among her notable inventions are the 2suit, a garment designed to ease intimacy in weightless or outer space.[15][16] She was also a member of Team BonNova in the race for the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, a NASA-sponsored competition for the next generation of vehicles able to land on the moon or other planets.[17][18] In 1995, her statement relating quasars to black holes was later confirmed by astronomers' discovery in 2007.[19][20]

Vanna Bonta is married to Allen Newcomb, a rocket engineer and chief architect of BonNova Northrop Grumman lunar lander challenge.[21]

Selected bibliography

Vanna Bonta has published several novels, poems and essays. A selection of her works is as follows:

Fiction

Poems

  • Voci Fiorentine (poetry anthology in Italian), 2013.
  • Degrees - Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art , Dora Books, 1989. ISBN 978-0912339054
  • Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry), 1981.

Essays

  • "The Cosmos as a Poem," 1994, 2012
  • The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society. ESA Publications. 2005. ISBN 978-9290925828.
  • 2000, 2012 - State of the Art. ASIN B0086PAIXK.
  • 2008, 2011 Il Cosmo Come Poesia. Beacon Hill (in Italian). ASIN B008744ZYI.
  • 2004 Space: What love's got to do with it, The Space Review

See also

Quotations related to Vanna Bonta at Wikiquote

References

  1. ^ a b "Novel melds reality, fantasy". Gather.com. 1996. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ a b Delilah Shapiro Jones (April 14, 1996). "FLIGHT: A Quantum Fiction Novel may be the first work of 'quantum fiction' in recorded history". Tampa bay Times (ex. St. Petersburg Times). {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta". Publishers Weekly - Book review. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ "MAVEN Haiku Selected For Travel to Mars". NASA Solar System Exploration. August 2013. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. ^ Alan Boyle (August 2013). "MAVEN mission team / picks haiku for Red Planet / We're green with envy". NBC News. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. ^ "1,100 Haiku Headed To Mars Aboard NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft". The Huffington Post. August 2013. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ^ Jolie O'Dell (May 6, 2013). "NASA holds haiku contest to send a message to Mars". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  8. ^ By Katy Steinmetz (Aug. 09, 2013). "NASA Is Sending These Poems to Mars". Time Magazine. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  9. ^ "The MAVEN Mission". NASA. November 18, 2013. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ a b Damien Walter (July 2013). "Science fiction's five best guides to the present". The Guardian, UK. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ "Vanna Bonta, una scrittrice dell". Minerva. May 18, 2012. Retrieved May 06, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  12. ^ "Sex in Space". History Channel. Dec. 2008. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  13. ^ a b "Vanna Bonta filmography". Fandango. Retrieved May 06, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  14. ^ "Untold Tales of the Next Generation". Schuster & Schuster. 1989. Retrieved May 06, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ Alan Boyle (July 2006). Outerspace sex carries complications "Outerspace sex carries complications". MSNBC. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  16. ^ "Spaced out on sex". The Times of India. Jul 2006. Retrieved May 05, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  17. ^ "Vanna Go to the Moon?". Inventors Digest. May 09, 2009. Retrieved May 11, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Vanna Bonta Does Inventor's Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful". American Chronicles. May 02, 2009. Retrieved May 11, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Quasars powered by black holes". Astronomy (magazine). January 9, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  20. ^ "Flight: a quantum fiction novel, p. 360-361". Meridian House. 1995.
  21. ^ "Lunar lander liftoff". MSNBC. Jan 31, 2007. Retrieved May 06, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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