Virginia Konchan is the author of five poetry collections, Requiem (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2025), Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022), Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2020 and 2018); a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017); and four chapbooks, That Tree is Mine (Gaspereau Press, 2020), Empire of Dirt (above/ground press, 2019), The New Alphabets (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Vox Populi (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Coeditor of the craft anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), she holds degrees from Beloit College (BA), Cleveland State University (MFA), and the University of Illinois Chicago (PhD). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Best New Poets, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets; her essays and criticism in Kenyon Review Online, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Jacket2, and Guernica; her translations in The Brooklyn Rail, Asymptote and Circumference; and her fiction in StoryQuarterly, Joyland, and Memorious. Her work has been anthologized in several collections, and her honors include grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, The Banff Centre, and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. Co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary, she is currently the 2023 Amy Clampitt Residency Fellow, and from 2023-2024 will be reviewing books for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books.