Laren McClung is author of a collection of poems, Between Here and Monkey Mountain (Sheep Meadow Press), and editor of Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (W.W. Norton). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has held fellowships and residencies from Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. She teaches writing in Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.