Carolyne Whelan

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, hiked and biked around the Americas and Europe, and worked as a writer and editor at a number of publications, including Dirt Rag Magazine. She started at Adventure Cycling in 2021, uniting her passions for publishing, bike-powered travel, and community building into the ultimate role as Editor-in-Chief at Adventure Cyclist. In 2024, she dove back into freelancing, this time writing gear guides and product reviews, offering one-on-one editing classes and services, and hosting a cycling and writing retreat this coming September in Missoula, Montana. When she isn’t writing or riding, Carolyne can typically be found hiking or kayaking with her Very Good Girl, Broose.