Alejandro Heredia

Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro-Dominican writer from The Bronx. His debut novel LOCA is forthcoming February 2025 from Simon and Schuster.

He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Dominican Studies Institute, Kenyon Review, and Trinity College. In 2019, he was selected by Myriam Gurba as the winner of the Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. His chapbook of short stories, You’re the Only Friend I Need (2021), explores themes of queer transnationalism, friendship, and (un)belonging in the African Diaspora. Heredia’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Lambda Literary Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.

Heredia currently serves as Black Mountain Institute’s Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.