Jose Varghese is a bilingual writer/editor/translator from India. He is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. He has been working as the sole short fiction editor and curator for the magazine from early 2013, choosing hundreds of stories from a staggering amount of submissions. He is the author of Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems (2008) and his new collection of poems is scheduled for publication by the Black Spring Press Group in 2022. His poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Litro, Under the Radar Magazine (Nine Arches Press), The Elevation Review, Pidgeonholes, 'Short, Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices', Joao Roque Literary Journal, Burningwords Literary Journal, SPLASH! (Haunted Waters Press), Wild Roof Journal, The Bookends Review, The Closed Eye Open, High Shelf Press, Sunspot Literary Journal, Chariot Press, The Showbear Family Circus, The Best Asian Short Story Anthology (2019 and 2021), The Best Asian Poetry Anthology (2021), Wingless Dreamer (Spring Poetry Contest 2021), Bluing the Blade (Tempered Runes Press), Lunchbreak Zine, Cathexis Northwest Press, Khabar, Live Encounters, 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, Retreat West, Flash Fiction Magazine, Chandrabhaga, and Postcolonial Text.
He is a contributing editor and writer for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. He was a finalist twice in the London Independent Story Prize for his stories 'Contretemps' and 'Rescued with a Smile', and in the Beverly International Prize 2018 for his short story manuscript In/Sane, a runner up in two Faber Academy's QuickFic competitions,the winner of The River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry Contest, a runner up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize 2013, and a second prize winner in the Wordweavers Flash Fiction Prize 2012. He was shortlisted in Hourglass Short Story Contest and Retreat West Micro Fiction Competition and was commended in Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize. He has some research experience in Postcolonial Indian Fiction in English and is currently working on his first novel. He has written articles on short fiction in Thresholds: The International Short Story Forum, Chichester University, UK and was a participating writer at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2012, the International Conference on the Short Story in English in Vienna (2014) and Lisbon (2018). He writes literary essays and reviews on literary fiction and social issues in Malayalam for the web portals of Indian Express and Asiaville.