Welcome! I’m Leticia Urieta

Leticia, a fat light skinned woman with dark brown curly hair and green eyes is looking into the distance with her hand on a mossy tree. She is wearing a blue sweater and a multicolored scarf. She stands against the tree in a wooded area on the coast of Maine.

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!

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…

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…

Whistles, Ballads and Tales

I’ve come to cherish the first few hours of the morning. There is the quiet darkness between my 7am alarm, which I don’t really know why I have it set for that time anymore, since my body usually wakes me up before that, and we are not on the same strict morning schedule since Chancho…

Leticia Urieta

Writer, Editor and Community Teaching Artist

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