About

Meaghan Hackinen is a writer and ultra-endurance cyclist from Canada’s West Coast. Her two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. In addition to being the 2024 Tour Divide winner in the women’s division, she is a Trans Am Bike Race, NorthCape4000, Transcontinental Race, and Paris-Brest-Paris finisher. Meaghan is also a 2X World 24 Hour Time Trial Champion and 2019-2023 Women’s Course Record Holder. Meaghan has five Everestings to her name and took the overall win in the 2021 BC Epic 1000 while setting a new women’s FKT; she also has course records on The Big Lonely, Dark Divide 300, Silver State 508, and Log Driver’s Waltz.

In 2025, Meaghan became the first woman to complete the Mountain Race Series in a single calendar year, placing 2nd in the women’s division in Atlas Mountain Race (17th overall), and winning both Hellenic Mountain Race (9th overall) and Silk Road Mountain Race (10th overall).

Meaghan’s writing explores relationships, experiences on the road, and encounters with wild places. You can find her creative non-fiction, poetry, and prose in literary journals and cycling magazines, including American Randonneur, Cargo Lit Mag, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, The Feathertale Review, The Fieldstone Review, Momentum Mag, One Throne, untethered, and Poetry All Over the Floor, the Tonight It’s Poetry anthology. Her essay “Where the Tide Rushes Between” was a 2016 National Magazine Awards finalist and Best American Essays 2016 Notable Essay; her travel memoir, South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (NeWest Press, 2019) was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and Alberta Book of the Year (trade non-fiction). Her follow up memoir, Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race was released in 2023 to critical acclaim. Meaghan has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan. She lives on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan People in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.

Want to know more? Check out Meaghan’s publications, cycling accomplishments, or ride reports.

Meaghan is grateful for the support of 7mesh, Apidura, Bikepacking Coach, ChainLine Cycle Kelowna, Rene Herse, Redshift Sports & Salsa Cycles.