About Leticia Urieta

Leticia, a fat light skinned woman with curly dark brown hair that is shaved on one side sits on a gray couch. She is wearing a black dress with sheer bubble sleeves and a black K95 face mask. She looks at the camera holding a stuffed bat plushie.
Leticia, a fat light skinned woman with curly dark brown hair that is shaved on one side sits on a gray couch. She is wearing a black dress with sheer bubble sleeves and a black K95 face mask. She looks at the camera holding a stuffed bat plushie.

Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is Tejana writer from Austin, TX. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University.

She works as teaching artist for adults and youth and offers a variety of workshops for all ages. Leticia is also a freelance writer and editor who writes a variety of articles and reviews, as well as supporting other writers and creatives to develop their own projects.

Leticia writes across several genres, including poetry, speculative fiction, horror, comics and more! Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lumina, The Offing, Kweli Journal, Medium, Electric Lit, Uncharted Magazine and others. Her chapbook, The Monster was published in 2018 from LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas, from FlowerSong Press was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and a finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Short Story Collections. Leticia’s chapbook, Offerings to a Tumbled Temple is out now from Purple Ink Press, and er dark fiction collection, The Remedy is the Disease, is forthcoming in May, 2026 from Undertaker Books.

Leticia is currently a writer on the road, traveling around the US with her husband and pug mix, Tajin. Despite all, she is fueled by sushi, horror movies and breaks to watch pug videos on Instagram.