Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet is an American novelist, film critic, and professor who resides in Shoreline, Washington.

Jeffrey Overstreet
Born	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist movie critic teacher
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works	Auralia's Colors, Through a Screen Darkly
Website
lookingcloser.org

Biography

Overstreet teaches at Seattle Pacific University. His film reviews have been published in Paste, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Christianity Today, Risen, and Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine.^[1] His work has also been highlighted in TIME magazine.^[2] In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.^[3]

Critical reception

Through A Screen Darkly earned a "Starred Review" from Publishers Weekly.^[4] Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has said of the book that it is "Inspirational ... sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book is going to remind many of us about it."^[5]

Selected bibliography

• — (2007). Auralia's Colors. Waterbrook Press. ISBN 978-1-4000-7252-1. OCLC 123955154.
• — (2008). Cyndere's Midnight. WaterBrook. ISBN 978-1-4000-7253-8. OCLC 231834319.
• — (2010). Raven's Ladder. WaterBrook Press. ISBN 978-1-4000-7467-9. OCLC 779208050.
• — (2010). Through A Screen Darkly. ReadHowYouWant. ISBN 978-1-4596-3943-0. OCLC 864758913.
• — (2011). The Ale Boy's Feast. Water Brook Press. ISBN 978-1-4000-7468-6. OCLC 1090210170.