B. A. Varghese was born in Kerala, India, raised in New York, employed for a few years in New Jersey, and now resides in Florida. He graduated from Polytechnic University (New York) in 1993 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and has been working in the Information Technology field ever since. Inspired to explore his literary side, he has earned a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida and is currently working toward an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
There either is or is not, that's the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it's red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I'm not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.
Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, George Saunders, David Sedaris, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Leo Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Lorrie Moore, Franz Kafka, Frank O'Connor, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, William Butler Yeats, John Henry Fleming, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Jay Hopler, Robert Burns, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Writers of The Bible
