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.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.
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
