Ingeniero, narrador, crítico cultural, periodista y pornógrafo. Ha publicado las novelas La verdad de la vida en Marte y Las cenizas y las cosas, Tecnocultura y Pornografía. Yehya vive en Brooklyn desde 1992 y colabora en el suplemento “El Cultural” del periódico mexicano La Razón y en las revistas CTXT, Literal y Zócalo. Su más reciente libro: El planeta de los hongos. Una historia cultural de los hongos psicodélicos.

A graduate in Information Sciences and Techniques, she is a writer, cultural journalist, and television producer. She has served as news director at Canal 22 and deputy director of information at TV UNAM. She has contributed to El Ángel, the cultural supplement of the newspaper Reforma, La Jornada Cultural, Casa del Tiempo magazine, and Revista de la Universidad de México. She currently publishes in the cultural supplement Laberinto of the newspaper Milenio. She has received the National Journalism Prize from the Club de Periodistas three times for her work on Raquel Tibol, una vida en el arte (documentary, 2005), Las respuestas de la ciencia (series, 2009), and Observatorio 2012 (series, 2011). Some of her publications include Massimo Bontempelli. An Intense Life (UAM, 2007), Instant Reveal (Joaquín Mortiz, 2008) in co-authorship with José Gordon, The Lion and the Archangel (UNAM-Seix Barral, 2009), Alternative Paths: Conversations on Art, Literature, Journalism and Humanities (UNAM, 2010), Border Notebook: Essays on the Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Work of Creators (UNAM, 2015), and Sign of the Lion: Salvatore Quasimodo, Love Letters (Dante, 2021) in co-authorship with Myriam Moscona.