Virginia Konchan is the author of a poetry collection, The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018), a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017), and two chapbooks, including That Tree Is Mine (dancing girl press, 2018). Her honors include an NEH fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Award, and her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Boston Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.