B. A. Varghese was born in Kerala, India, raised in New York, employed 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 in the process of working toward an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
