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.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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
