R .P. Bonasso

R. P. Bonasso was born in Frankfurt, Germany to an Army Major and his wife. He was appointed to the US Military Academy at West Point, NY because his enterprising father delivered flowers to an ailing Senator who had an at-large appointment available. After tours in Germany and Vietnam, graduate school at Stanford University and several automatic data processing posts in the Army, he got out, taking computer jobs in the civilian world, finally landing at a job for NASA's Johnson Space Center, programming space robots that he's been at for the last twenty years. He got the writing bug when he was in Vietnam, and enrolled in the Famous Writers School when he returned. But work, and a family of five kids, made him bury the bug. One night in 2003, while reading a paperback, he realized that he could do better than what he was reading, and decided to write stories and books he personally would enjoy. On a lark, he entered the Writer's Digest short story contest and got an honorable mention (Eros Encoded in Tough Girls). Since then he's written two novels and a collection of short stories and doesn't plan on stopping as long as he can type on a laptop.