Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro-Dominican writer and community organizer born in Santo Domingo and raised in The Bronx. He is a 2018 VONA/Voices fellow, and 2019 Dreamyard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium Fellow. Myriam Gurba selected Alejandro's chapbook, You're the Only Friend I Need as the winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. Alejandro's work has been featured in Auburn Avenue Magazine, La Galeria Magazine, No Dear Magazine, and elsewhere.