Andreas Schroeder's most important books to date are his volume of poems The Ozone Minotaur and his collection of short stories, The Late Man. His work has appeared in numerous North American and European literary journals and anthologies; some of it has also been translated into Rumanian, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Serbo-Croatian. Schroeder is an editor, critic, translator, journalist, free-lance broadcaster, and filmmaker: he has won several awards for his filmscripts and productions. In his fiction and poetry, Schroeder creates and explores landscapes in which the self fragments into a series of haunting possibilities, articulated, to use a term from The Ozone Minotaur, by voices uttering "diatribes" in a language rich with the paradoxes of fictional truths. For Schroeder, the poet is an "engraver":

When I, engraver, etch the truth into steel,
I print a lie.
The lie of the truth, exactly.
A diatribe in monochrome, for...