Alejandro Heredia

Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro-Dominican writer and community organizer from The Bronx. He won the 2019 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest, judged by Myriam Gurba. His short story collection, You're the Only Friend I Need (2021), explores queer transnationalism, friendship, and belonging in the African Diaspora. He is the author of the novel Loca, released by Simon & Schuster in February 2025, which follows two Dominican best friends in New York City in 1999. He serves as Artist-in-Residence in English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.