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.
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
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
