Jose Varghese is Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart College in Kochi, India. His PhD focuses on Post-Colonial Fiction (select novels of Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and Rohinton Mistry) and he is also working on a research project on the works of Hanif Kureishi. His collection of poems 'Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems' was listed in Grace Cavalieri's Best Reading for Fall 2009, in Montserrat Review. His poems and stories have appeared in Indian and international journals like Chandrabhaga, Kavya Bharati, Postcolonial Text, Muse India, Poetry Chain, , Re-markings, Dusun, Asia Writes, Wordweavers and The Four Quarters Magazine and in the anthology On Viewless Wings (California). He has won the second prize for Worweavers Annual Flash Fiction contest. He has done a Faber Writing Course in London under Marcel Theroux and Hanif Kureishi and writes for Thresholds: Home of the International Short Story Forum, Chichester University, UK.