Welcome! I’m Leticia Urieta

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Welcome! I’m Leticia Urieta. I am a writer of horror, speculative fiction, comics, poetry and more! I am also write freelance and work as a teaching artist, leading community writing workshops across genres. I also offer editorial services and publish a monthly blog, Leticia’s Creative Obsessions.

I’d love to work with you to support your creative project or lead a workshop for your community!

Booking & Contact

New Book Releases!

The book cover of The Remedy is the Disease by Leticia Urieta depicting an other-worldly human face with reddish brown skin and thin black hair whose face has split down the middle with glowing white eye sockets and mouth.
The book cover of The Remedy is the Disease by Leticia Urieta depicting an other-worldly human face with reddish brown skin and thin black hair whose face has split down the middle with glowing white eye sockets and mouth.
The book cover of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple by Leticia Urieta depicting a painting of a blue ombre sky with a brown and pink hummingbird flying up above a brown rolling landscape resembling a woman's body lying down bordered by a white fence.
The book cover of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple by Leticia Urieta depicting a painting of a blue ombre sky with a brown and pink hummingbird flying up above a brown rolling landscape resembling a woman’s body lying down bordered by a white fence.

I have two new books out now (click on the book covers for the link to purchase a copy)!

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Publications

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Editing and Mentorship Services

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Creative Workshops

You’re Invited to My Book Release Celebration!

My full-length newsletter will be posted next week, but I wanted to send this invitation announcement out today because… My next horror collection, The Remedy is the Disease, will be in the world on May 15th from Undertaker Books. You can pre-order your copy now using the link above! You can read a review of…

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Praisesong for Dreaming

It’s National Poetry Month, a time when we celebrate all that poetry means to us, and what poetry means to the world. I’ve been grateful to promote my poetry this month while being home, as well as the opportunity to provide workshops and presentations, both with the wonderful poets who participated in my workshop with…

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Welcome Back (to Texas)

Throughout our travels, I have found myself caressing, even hugging a myriad of trees, wanting to know their names and greeting every waterway we encounter, bathing in it if I can, even if it means just submerging my toes or fingertips in the water. This impulse is curiosity, is questions, is appreciation, is worship. I…

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Leticia Urieta

Writer, Editor and Community Teaching Artist

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