N. Rain Noe is a thirtysomething NYC-based freelance writer and industrial designer. He performs fiction readings at spoken word venues and lectures at colleges, typically to Asian student groups, on the subject of working in fields requiring creativity.

To keep rice on the table he has been an ambulance driver, a bartender, a furniture designer, a Trend Forecaster, an English teacher in Japan, and host of an online news show, among other things. He currently serves as Executive Editor of Theme Magazine and works as both a product designer and manager of a photography studio.

Past projects include authoring the urban dating column “Love in a 10-Block Radius,” the highest-rated content on AsianAvenue.com, and writing “Kim Jong Il’s blog,” a fictitious account of a series of Instant Message sessions between Kim Jong Il and other world “leaders.”

Rain has spoken/performed at colleges including:

• Bard College
• Bowling Green State University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• New York University
• Princeton University
• Smith College
• University of Michigan
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vassar College
• Yale University

He has written film reviews, social commentary and design criticism for magazines in America, Europe, Scandanavia, and on the World Wide Web. A 2005 Van Lier Fellow, Rain has just completed a first draft of his manuscript, How to Squander Your Twenties.

Publications written for:

• A. Magazine - Inside Asian America
• Educated Community
• Graphis Magazine
• Mademoiselle
• New York Daily News
• New York Korea Times
• Stance Magazine
• Theme Magazine
• Tokion
• Tokyo Classified
• Totem Magazine



• AsianAvenue.com
• Core77.com
• GenerationRice.com

College groups: In addition to lecturing singularly, Rain also assembles panels of up to six “creatives” working in a variety of fields, to give students a broader perspective on what it will take to succeed in these industries.


Send queries to:

BookRain@gmail.com