Bonnie Bostrom
Bonnie has been writing poetry and creating art since she was a little girl. Her published works include poetry collections, fine art criticism and memoir and have been published in several literary journals. Recently, she felt inspired to explore painting. She found that the ephemeral, celestial nature of her written work translated well into the visual medium.
Books By Bonnie
Born Crazy
A memoir of resilience and self-discovery
The Witnesses Project
Voices of poets witnessing our current lives
Ecstasy
Poems spiritual in nature by Michele Cuomo and Bonnie Bostrom
Illumination
Three Sci-fi Romances
Quicksilver Dreams
Poetry collection exploring transformation and change
The Way Showers
Exploring paths of wisdom and enlightenment
Duet
A collaborative poetry collection
Love, Always Love
Poetry and photography collaboration
Laying Stone
Poetry and paintings art book
Image and Word: A Dialectic
Collaboration with visual artist Vytas Sakalas
Buddha Nature of the Southwest
Buddhist poetry with Southwest photography
Uncommon Constants
Poetry collection
Women Facing Retirement: A Time For Self-Reflection
Guide for women approaching retirement
Casting Shadows
A new poetry collection
Featured Memoir
Born Crazy
Part memoir, part poetry, part philosophy, part art gallery, this book defies description — and it's only available here at BonnieBostrom.com. Order your copy today.
Bonnie's Latest
Illumination: 3 Sci-Fi Romances
A woman meets her soulmate when an alien ship crash-lands on her ranch.
A dying mother recalls an encounter with a loving visitor from the stars.
In a future world where Sensory Collectors buy and sell emotion-enhancing hormones, true love can be difficult to recognize.
These are the settings for Bonnie Bostrom's brand of Science Fiction. Make that Romantic Science Fiction. Here, in "Illumination," the gentle touch speaks volumes when messages are transferred through thought; the understated life-long friendship with a mysterious red dot of light becomes a promise of hope in the beyond; and love ice skates across time, space, and realities to bring a couple together.
The author welcomes the reader through the front door and into these short stories with a warm hand and a smile. There is no need for over-explanation or obvious, didactic metaphor. Less is more, and one of Ms. Bostrom's gifts as an author is to create believable characters and settings seemingly effortlessly and with finesse.
In the story "Skuller," the heroine, Flyn, is described as a green-eyed woman with blue-black hair who is a natural empath. Her adventures take us into the realm of the speculative yet-to-be, but her character remains timeless—
"Flyn was grateful to her parents for her beauty, but she was more brain than beauty-proud. Beauty was, at best, static, and after a certain age, a regressive process, whereas thinking was progressive, expansive, and dynamic."
When my 14-year-old daughter read these Sci-fi tales of romance on a day off from school, she could be heard quietly sighing and laughing to herself on the sofa. When she finished, I asked for her thoughts. She gave a short, complimentary response that is, as parents of teens will know, the pinnacle of respect—
"They're really cool," she said.
I have to agree.
—Henry Long