Alejandro Heredia is a writer from The Bronx. He is the author of LOCA, a finalist for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel prize, and You’re the Only Friend I Need, winner of the Gold Line Press Fiction chapbook contest. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Dominican Studies Institute, Kenyon Review, Trinity College, and UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute. Heredia’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, LitHub, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.

Heredia currently serves as an artist in residence at Trinity College, where he teaches creative writing.