Jose Varghese is a bilingual writer and translator from India. He is the author of ‘Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems’ and his short story manuscript ‘In/Sane’ was a finalist in the 2018 Beverly International Prize. 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, Haunted Waters Press, Wingless Dreamer, Bluing the Blade (Tempered Runes Press), Lunchbreak Zine, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Best Asian Short Story Anthology (2019 and 2021) , Dreich, Live Encounters, Meridian – The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, 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.