Laren McClung

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Laren McClung is the coauthor, with Yusef Komunyakaa, of Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) and editor of the anthology Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (W. W. Norton, 2017). 

McClung teaches at New York University.