Carolyne Whelan
Verified
(She/They)
As seen in:
Medium,
Flipboard,
AlterNet,
Sierra Magazine,
Bicycling Magazine,
GearJunkie,
Inked Magazine,
Roads and Kingdoms,
Pittsburgh City Paper,
Adventure Cyclist Magazine
and
Covers:
Bicycles, outdoor recreation, road trips/#vanlife/overlanding, poetry/poetics, dogs, ecology, holistic health
Doesn't Cover:
finance, national politics, global politics, makeup
Editor in Chief at Adventure Cyclist, the magazine of Adventure Cycling. coffee, dogs, getting weird in the wilderness.
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Carolyne Whelan’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Carolyne grew up in eastern Massachusetts, where her love of riding her training wheels down to the harbor to watch the fishing boats grew into a passion for exploring the city’s furthest neighborhoods on two wheels. She moved to New Mexico as a teenager, where she got a wild hair to ride her bike down the west coast with nothing but a picnic blanket and she’s been hooked on bike touring ever since. In the meantime, she’s earned a BA and MFA in writing, wrenched in bike shops around the US, hik…
Carolyne Whelan’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
I edited the poetry and music sections of my high school newspaper
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, I made most of my old zines on typewriters, and write all my love letters with a typewriter
How is social media changing news?
Immediate reactions, sure, but also multimedia, reactions attached to realtime footage or other journalists' stories
Awards
BNY Mellon Arts Endowment
2012 - Poetry and Storytelling
$10,000 donor-funded award for excellence in writing.