Askari Mateos was born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. Writer and journalist. He was part of the XLI generation of the Diploma of Literary Creation of SOGEM and completed a Literary Creation degree from the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM).
Texts of his have been published in the anthologies of Relato Breve, Mano de Obra (ICC, Almadía, 2005 and 2006), in Cartography of the Oaxacan Literature (Almadía, 2007), Sides B (NitroPress, 2011), Only story (UNAM, 2015) and Cuentistas de Tierra Adentro 2007-2017 (FETA, 2017).
He is the author of the story books Cuarenta Grados (Tierra Adentro, 2009) and El Principio de Pascal (Surplus Ediciones y Nortestación, 2018).