Degrees:
M.F.A., Hunter College, CUNY
B.A., Dickinson College
Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro Dominican writer and community organizer from The Bronx. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Dreamyard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, 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 book of short stories, You’re the Only Friend I Need (2021), explores themes of queer transnationalism, friendship, and (un)belonging in the African Diaspora. Alejandro’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Lambda Literary Review, Tasteful Rude Magazine, and elsewhere.
He has taught writing workshops at Emerson College, Pace University, University of Pittsburgh, and elsewhere. Just as in his writing, his teaching expertise centers the literature of LGBTQ Black writers from across the diaspora.
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Creative Writing
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Black Diasporic Literature
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LGBTQ Literature
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Writing and Activism
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ENGL-106
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Who Are Your People? Writing community in the 21st Century
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ENGL-324
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Locating a Black LGBTQ Literary Tradition
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Dominican American Studies
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20th Century Immigration
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- CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Research Fellow, 2022.
- LAMBDA Literary Fellow, 2022.
- Voices of Our Nation (VONA) Fiction Fellow, 2018.
- Posse Foundation Full Tuition Scholarship, 2012-2016.
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