Jesenia Chávez is a proud Chicanita, public-school teacher, writer, poet and storyteller. She has kept a diary since elementary school, and it is filled with witty observations on the life of a little Mexican girl in Southeast Los Angeles who keeps losing her chanclas. 

Her writing is inspired by her parents’ migration to Los Angeles from Chihuahua, México, her teaching career, her sense of loss in the rapidly changing landscape of Los Angeles, and all the small moments in between when she can catch her breath and put pen to paper.

She also co-hosts Que Me Cuentas (What can you tell me): A Latinx storytelling podcast.  She believes in the healing power of storytelling, poetry, dancing, nature and lots of hugs.