Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of a moviegoing memoir called Through a Screen Darkly (Baker, 2007) and the four-volume fantasy series The Auralia Thread, which includes Auralia’s Colors, Cyndere’s Midnight, Raven’s Ladder, and The Ale Boy’s Feast (Waterbrook Multnomah, 2007–2011). He writes about movies at Give Me Some Light (jeffreyoverstreet.substack.com) and Looking Closer (lookingcloser.org). His new memoir, Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema (now available for pre-order), is about how movies saved him from religious fundamentalism even as it inspired new faith. He and his wife Anne, a poet and editor, live in Shoreline, Washington, where they have been the faithful servants of several cats, most of whom have been named after characters in the Robert De Niro / Charles Grodin buddy comedy Midnight Run. His Spielberg Top 5? #1: Raiders of the Lost Ark. #2: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. #3: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. #4: Empire of the Sun. #5: Jaws.