Jose Varghese is a writer/editor from India who teaches English at Jazan University, KSA. He worked previously at SH College, Thevara, and is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. His first book, "Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems" was listed in Grace Cavalieri's Best Reading for Fall 2009, Montserrat Review. His poems and short stories have appeared in the journals/anthologies The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013 (UK), Unthology (UK), 10RED (UK), The River Muse (USA), Chandrabhaga (India), Kavya Bharati (India), Postcolonial Text (Canada), Muse India (India), Re-Markings (India), Dusun (Malaysia), The Four Quarters Magazine (India) and On Viewless Wings vol.1, 2 and 3 (California). He was the winner of The River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry Contest, USA, a runner up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize 2013, UK, a second prize winner in the Wordweavers Flash Fiction Prize 2012 and his poem was commended in Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2014. His collection of short stories, 'Silent Woman and Other Stories' is slated for publication in 2014. He has done research on Post-Colonial Fiction and is currently working on Hanif Kureishi's novels. He has done a Faber Writing Course in London and writes for Thresholds: The International Short Story Forum, Chichester University, UK. He was a participating writer at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2012 and is invited to read his story at the 2014 Vienna International Conference on the Short Story in English.