The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Gabriel Alexis Ojeda-Sagué was born in Washington, DC in 1994 and grew up in Miami, Florida. They hold a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, they are a PhD candidate in English language and literature at The University of Chicago. Ojeda-Saguee is the author of Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022); Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; Jazzercise is a Language (The Operating System, 2018); and Oil and Candle (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2016), which won the 2015 Timeless Infinite Light TRACT Contest. Ojeda-Sagué is also the co-editor of An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989, which was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction. They are the author of the chapbooks A Change in Me (TENDE/RLOIN, 2019), ‘Yo’ Quiere Decir Sunburn (2016), Where Everything is in Halves (Be About It, 2015), Nite [Chickadee]s (GaussPDF, 2015), and JOGS (2013). Ojeda-Sagué was a 2017 Kelly Writers House Junior Fellow, and their literary influences include CAConrad, Rae Armantrout, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Manuel Puig, William Faulkner, Sebastian Castillo, Roland Barthes, Samuel Delany, Charles Bernstein, and Kevin Killian. 

Works Cited

Ojeda-Sagué, Gabriel Alexis. Author Questionnaire. The Puerto Rican Literature Project, 2024.

Ojeda-Sagué, Gabriel Alexis. Interview. Conducted by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, 16 Sept. 2022