Noah Lukeman is the author of the bestselling The First Five Pages, which was serialized in Poets and Writers and The Writer, and is now part of the writing curriculum in many universities. He is a manager in the New York office of Artists Management Group and was founder and president of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd. He has been a guest speaker at forums conducted by numerous organizations, including the Writer's Voice, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Wallace Stegner writing program at Stanford University.