Matteo Bona was born on January 1st, 1997, in Asti (Piedmont, Italy). He studied at the Public Scientific Lyceum Francesco Vercelli. Now he studies Foreign Languages and Modern Literature at the Università del Piemonte Orientale. He published his first poems' collection “Oltre la poesia” during 2015 and “Il senso del nulla” in January 2018. He received the Roma 3 Academic Prize Apollo Dionisiaco for the Unpublished Poem and the “Cesare Beccaria” Prize for the Figurative Art, both during 2016. 

He has published the 'Cesare Beccaria' prizewinner artwork into the Garfield Lake Review (2018 Issue), paper journal of the Olivet College (Michigan State, USA).

Other artwork's publications accepted in American journals and magazines: "Boredom and other human vices", 805 Lit+Art; "Verlangen", Mangrove Journal (Miami University); "Die Lebensmüdgkeit", Memoir Magazine; "Die Lebensmüdgkeit", GNU Journal; "Die Vernichtung", Tenth Street Miscellany; “Verlangen”, New Plains Review (Central Oklahoma University); “The Aesthetic of the Renewal”, Waxing & Waning; "Urban Nietzsche", Rebel Satori Press; "Onyria", Sink Hollow; "Das Sezieren bei Lebensmüdigkeit", Oakland Review (Carnegie Mellon University).

In July 2018, he published "Preludi" (Montag Editore), a collection of stories dealing with the troubles in the contemporary existentialism. In the end of November 2018 he published “Le feritoie d’alabastro” (Ofelia Editrice). The author published in 2018 a graphic project for Cold Mountain Review called “Die Vernichtung” and he won the Appalachian State University Readers’ Choice Award for that project.