Jeffrey Overstreet


Jeffrey Overstreet is a novelist and film reviewer who currently resides in Shoreline, Washington.

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. His work has also been highlighted in TIME magazine. In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.

''Through A Screen Darkly''

Through A Screen Darkly was published by Regal Books in February 2007, and earned a "Starred Review" from Publisher's Weekly. In the book, Overstreet shows how films from many different worldviews can offer pieces of a larger truth.
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."
The book is used as a textbook at Seattle Pacific University, Fuller Seminary, Bryan College, and other schools.

''Auralia's Colors''

"This book is probably fine, but it is most decidedly not for me. i don't read fantasy precisely for the things that are all over this book. too many "names" for creatures, people, lands... i just get lost in the unfamiliar. the prose seems overwrought and the story underwrought. for me, it's like the guy you try to avoid at work who means well, but if you get sucked into a conversation with them, you just let your mind wander a little until he has spent himself. kind, but dull." -Review, 2010.

''Cyndere's Midnight''

Released in September 2008, Cyndere's Midnight is the second novel in The Auralia Thread. The story continues the tale of Auralia and introduces new characters into the fantasy series.

''Raven's Ladder''

Raven's Ladder, the third strand in the Auralia Thread, was released by Waterbrook Press in 2010.

''The Ale Boy's Feast''

This fourth and final strand in the Auralia Thread was released by Waterbrook Press in March 2011.