John Schulte Biography

John Schulte is a writer and developer of animation, toys, books, and entertainment properties. He served on the development team for the wildly popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He studied poetry at the University of Oklahoma during the visiting professorships of Pulitzer Prize winner, Maya Angelou, celebrated East Indian poet, Shiv K. Kumar, Dr. Madison Morrison, and Dr. Larry Griffin. He also mentored with Czech scriptwriter, Arnost Lustig. Schulte co-wrote and co-produced a pilot for Garry Marshall, called Four Stars. He is the Pop Culture writer for the Los Angeles beat on examiner.com. He co-produced a YA novel trilogy with his brother, called Time Capsule Murders. Schulte also edited a host of books by Edgar Award-winning authoress, Barbara Brooks Wallace and a martial arts book, The 7 Cs of Success, written by Actors Studio alumnus, Shaunt Benjamin. He has contributed to Carolyn Handler Millers seminal work, Digital Storytelling, and Miriam Van Scotts cultural chronicle, Encyclopedia of Hell. A collection of his verse, Blue Muse Rising, was released during National Poetry Month in 2016. Schulte is a member of the Authors Guild and the Academy of American Poets. His poetic work has appeared in sundry anthologies, literary journals, and magazines.