On Thursday, May 1 at 6 pm, author Alejandro Heredia will read from his new novel, LOCA (Simon & Schuster, 2025) at Stevenson Library. LOCA is a stunning debut that asks: How do we live in joyful presence when our past still harbors painful and unanswered questions? LOCA is an exploration of the immigrant experience, of queerness, of motherhood, of freedom, and of friendship.
Alejandro Heredia is a queer Afro-Dominican writer from The Bronx. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Dominican Studies Institute, Kenyon Review, and Trinity College. 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, The Offing, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.
This event is cosponsored by Bard Early College Hudson Valley and Stevenson Library. Copies of Heredia’s book will be available for purchase and signing.