Konchan, Virginia: - Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including Bel Canto, Hallelujah Time, Any God Will Do, and The End of Spectacle, as well as a short story collection, Anatomical Gift. She is coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems and her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, Atlantic, Believer, and Academy of American Poets.