Writer | Intensivist

Winner of the 2022 F. Sean Hodge award for poetry in Medicine

“Maybe if you saw the fog, the way it embraced the trees,  you’d know what I mean—that a smile is a delicate thing.”

- A Morning in the Anthropocene, The Westchester Review

Varun (he/him) grew up in Mumbai and is based in Cleveland. He is a 2025 PEN Emerging Writers Fellow. His work has appeared in The Penn Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Frontier Poetry, and others.