He is currently on the faculty of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

"[6] Dennis Abrams of Publishing Perspectives, also discussed in his review of Threatened, the way in which Schrefer "even makes his chimpanzees ... into living breathing characters.

"[8] Schrefer withdrew from the 2021 Plum Creek Literacy Festival at Concordia University Nebraska after observing that books with LGBT characters, including his book The Darkness Outside Us, had been excluded from the festival and that the religious University had a discriminatory policy toward LGBT students.

[9] The Darkness Outside Us, an LGBT young adult science fiction novel by Schrefer, was published in 2021 by Harper Collins.

[10] Born in Chicago to a British mother and an American father,[3] Schrefer identifies as gay.