| Nicolaia Rips | |
| Birth Name: | Nicolaia Anna Rips |
| Birth Place: | New York City, United States |
| Birth Date: | 19 August 1998 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Education: | Brown University |
Nicolaia Anna Rips (b. August 19, 1998) is an American journalist and memoirist. [1]
Rips was born in New York City, the daughter of Michael Rips (a writer and lawyer) and Sheila Berger (an artist and former model).[2] [3] Her godmother is model Paulina Porizkova. She attended Laguardia High School for Music and then Brown University. She grew up in the Chelsea Hotel.
Her articles and essays[4] have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Interview Magazine and The Paris Review. She is the author of Trying to Float, a memoir about her childhood in New York's Chelsea Hotel.