Livia Albeck-Ripka an Australian writer and filmmaker. She is based in Los Angeles, where she is a journalist at The New York Times.

Her work has been featured on The Daily and The New York Times Presents, the Times’ documentary series. She directed and produced the short film “STILL STANDING,” which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2018, Livia was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship for her writing on mental health. She has also written for publications including The Atlantic, National Geographic, VICE Magazine, Quartz and The Outline.

In 2014, she was awarded a residency at FABRICA, a creative studio in northern Italy, where she worked on feature projects and wrote for COLORS Magazine.

She has a master's degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and a BA in Philosophy and Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.