Jose Varghese (India) is the author of Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems. His short story manuscript “In/Sane” was a finalist in the 2018 Beverly International Prize and his second collection of poems was recently accepted for publication by Black Spring Press Group, UK. He was a finalist in the London Independent Story Prize (LISP), a runner up in the Salt Prize, and was commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize.
His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Joao Roque Literary Journal, SPLASH! (Haunted Waters Press), Cathexis Northwest Press, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Best Asian Short Story Anthology, Dreich, Meridian – The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, Afterwards, Summer Anywhere, I Am Not a Silent Poet, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Kavya Bharati, Bengaluru Review, Muse India, Re-Markings, Unthology 5, Unveiled, Reflex Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, Chandrabhaga, and Postcolonial Text.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“How to Paint a Portrait” – Poem – Volume 1, Number 4 of Bluing the Blade