Belinda Luscombe


Belinda Luscombe is an Australian-born journalist, and author of the book Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together. She is editor at large at TIME Magazine, and served as TIME arts editor 2003–2008, thus directing all of TIME cultural coverage. She joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1995 and became a senior editor in 1999. Cover stories she edited include "The Last Star Wars" and "Has TV Gone Too Far?". After switching to writing, she authored cover stories on Sheryl Sandberg, Gretchen Carlson, marriage, pornography, grief and parents who lost children to gun violence. She also was editor of the first U.S. issue of TIME Style & Design.
She has written humorous essays on interfacial marriage, how Warren Buffett should fix bras and revoking Larry King's marriage license.
In 2010, she won The Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Print coverage of Family Issues.
She holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney, and began her journalism career at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. She has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Vogue and Vogue Australia, Who Weekly, Arena, and the South China Morning Post, and has contributed humorous essays to several books.