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

Happy Halloween!

As October comes to a close, us creepy kids often feel a sense of sadness, feeling as though perhaps we did not do all we wanted to celebrate, in my opinion, the most imaginative and fun time of the year, but we must comfort ourselves with the knowledge that true creepy kids keep it creepy…

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Cultivating Enthusiasm

Today is my 40th birthday! This is of course a milestone birthday, and thus I find myself reflecting on this age and time in my life. When I was younger, most of the elders in my family lived well into their eighties and nineties, so it was normalized for me that forty was still quite…

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Into the Vortex

Before we left Montana, we visited the Montana Vortex and House of Mystery. It is on a small plot of land surrounded by towering trees, doubling as a mindfulness retreat space. The tour guide explained that this land contains a few energetic vortexes that bend the laws of physics, making gravity less powerful, and causing…

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Leticia Urieta

Writer, Editor and Community Teaching Artist

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