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Jeffrey Overstreet
| born |
October 09, 1970
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| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Portland, OR, The United States |
| website |
http://lookingcloser.org |
| genre |
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
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| influences |
JRR Tolkien, Mark Helprin, CS Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Patricia McKillip, Annie Dillard, Scott Cairns, Philip Yancey |
about this author
My name is Jeffrey Overstreet.
I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Portland Christian Schools from K-12. My father was a teacher there during that time, and my mother has worked as a teacher too... so I grew up in a world of educators.
My younger brother Jason is some kind of singer/songwriter/composer genius. He has a singing group called Rescue— www.myspace.com/rescuemusic — that continues to amaze and bless audiences everywhere. I'm proud of that guy.
My wife, Anne, comes from Roswell, New Mexico. (Insert alien-related joke here.) We just celebrated our 11th anniversary. She works as a gardener and a freelance editor, but her poetry is what really blows my mind.
I've been writing books since before I started kindergarten. I think the first one was called "The Sea Monster," and it was full of scribbled drawings of a massive, fanged beast trying to swallow a little stick-figure man. I'm not sure what that represented, or if I identified with the man or the beast.
But, thanks to a whirlwind of events in 2005-06, and a few meetings that could only have happened through God's wild imagination, my first book, "Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies" (from Regal Books). It's a book about art, faith, and the way that a good movie can change the world. It's a memoir of sorts, but also a collection of meditations on great movies, and I include some excerpts from memorable interviews with filmmakers and movie stars.
I'm also a novelist, and my first novel, "Auralia's Colors", has just been published by Random House. And three sequels are on the way!
What is more:
I'm a contented resident of Shoreline (north end of Seattle, Washington).
I'm the contributing editor of Seattle Pacific University's Response Magazine;
I'm a film critic at LookingCloser.org, ChristianityTodayMovies.com, and Risen Magazine;
and I'm a trouble-prone follower of Christ.
I guess that'll do for starters. Any questions?
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