Rose Heredia is Dominican-American and from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, currently living in Oakland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. She is a VONA alumna, served as a fiction and nonfiction editor for the UC Berkeley Extension literary magazine, Ursa Minor, and received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. She is the Culture writer for Epifania Magazine, a fiction reader for CRAFT Literary magazine and has been published in The Thought Erotic: A Sex Thinktank.