Lesley Téllez is a multi-genre writer based in Mexico City, whose work is inspired by ancestral knowledge, food, motherhood, and desire.

Her cookbook Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas was published by Kyle Books in 2015. For 10 years, Lesley ran the top-rated food tour company Eat Mexico.

Lesley's articles, recipes, and essays have been published in Epicurious, Resy, TASTE, Eater, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, Saveur, and Food & Wine, among other publications. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Barrelhouse and The Acentos Review, and are forthcoming in the anthology Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Radical Visions of Latinx Hope.

Lesley is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, where she studied with Sharon Bridgforth in 2023 and Cherríe Moraga in 2024. She is a fiction alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop, Community of Writers, and the Yale Writers’ Workshop. She was awarded a fiction residency from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in 2022.

From 2009 to 2015, Lesley authored the award-winning Mexican food and travel blog The Mija Chronicles. Lesley started her career as a newspaper reporter at The Dallas Morning News.

Lesley is a proud Los Angeles native, raised in the Inland Empire. She’s working on a novel about Mexican food and assimilation.