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

He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, and the Dominican Studies Institute. 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, Tasteful Rude Magazine, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.

Heredia currently serves as Trinity College’s Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow, where he teaches and writes.