John Schreiber is an American teacher, theater director, and writer. Originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota, he currently teaches English in southern Minnesota and has directed over 120 plays throughout the area. He also pioneered teaching over interactive television and developed one of the first concurrent enrollment courses with a local college. He has received numerous awards including Ashland Oil's "Golden Apple Award," and the "Selection of Excellence" from the MN Alliance for the Arts. In 2003, he was a finalist for Minnesota's Teacher of the Year, and in 2012 he was Minnesota's first Theater Educator of the Year.His Ironwood County novels, ("Hillcrest Journal," "Passing Through Paradise," "Life on the Fly," and "Catching the Stream") draw on many of his teaching experiences in rural Minnesota.His collection of short stories, "Tales from 2 A.M." features stories written over the course of many years. Each story is written in a style designed to match the theme. Influences for these stories can be found in sources as diverse as Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain.For his fifth novel, the epic fantasy "Heartstone," Schreiber employed a cinematic, real-time style that brings an extra immediacy to the action.After promising himself never to write a novel as complicated as "Heartstone" again, he broke that promise and wrote the sequel "Heartstone: Under the Shadow." He also adapted three short stories found in "Tales from 2 a.m." into a novella called "Galactic Pariah: the Legend of Methuselah Brown." Unlike his other books, this is available only as an ebook on Amazon. He also released a slightly updated "Me and Josh and Gideon" as a "single" ebook as well as the previously unpublished "New Jerusalem Poems" that also includes "I AM: the Jesus Incident." Purchase of this ebook also gives the purchasing agent the right to produce the play and/or the dramatic monologue poems.In 2016 he began work on the Irregulars Project that featured a trilogy of misfit super-powered adolescents: "Master of Gravity," "Epileptic Dreamer," and "Burned." These three characters who call themselves the Irregulars came together in the "The Third Body." This book became a suspenseful homage to and deconstruction of Silver Age comics. It was followed by "Families in High Places" and concluded in "Curtain Call." In 2024 all the Highly Irregular stories were updated and re-released in two volumes available in both paperback and ebook formats.He is currently working on a dystopian series and adding a sixth novel to the Ironwood County novels entitled "My Secret Journal Dedicated to my (Dumb) Brother Who Committed Suicide by Anonymous". A beta version is available on Kindle Vella.Read more about this authorRead less about this author