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Alejandro Heredia

Alejandro Heredia
Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Loca is his debut novel.


From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

“Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”
February 12, 2025  By Alejandro Heredia
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