Publications
- “Winning the Hellenic Mountain Race” (race report) published in Rene Herse Journal online (Summer 2025)
- “Far from Alone: Meaghan Hackinen’s Invisible Support Network Behind her Tour Divide Finish” (personal essay) published in The Radavist (Summer 2024)
- “A Guide to Getting Started as a Bikepack Racer” (non-fiction) published in Bike Gear Database (Spring 2024)
- “Individual Time Trial vs Grand Depart” (non-fiction) published in Apidura journal (Winter 2024)
- “The Canadian Shield 400: Adventure, Bugs & Community” (ride report) published in Bike Gear Database (Winter 2024)
- Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race (memoir) published by NeWest Press (Fall 2023)
- “Dispatches from the Dark Divide” (race report) published in 7mesh journal (Fall 2023)
- “Rail Trail Rambler: Bikepacking in BC’s Interior” (ride report) published on Bike Gear Database (Spring 2023)
- “Belgium to Bulgaria: Racing the Transcontinental” (personal essay) published on Femme Cyclist (Spring 2023)
- “Developing your Bikepacking Toolkit” (non-fiction) published on Apidura (Winter 2023)
- “The Big Lonely 2022: A Redemption Story” (race report) published on Bikepacking.com (Winter 2023)
- “A Change in Plans: Bikepacking in Big Sky Country, Montana” (ride report) published on Bike Gear Database (Winter 2023)
- “Joy on Two Wheels” (personal essay) published on MawonaVelo (Winter 2022)
- “Autumn on the Prairies” (prose) published in Blank Spaces (Volume 6, Issue 1; September 2021)
- “Racing Through a Heat Dome” (ride report) published on Bikepacking.com (Summer 2021)
- “500 Miles” (prose) published in Release Any Words Stuck Inside You III Anthology from Applebeard Editions (Summer 2021)
- “Pool Time with Louie” (prose) published in Release Any Words Stuck Inside You II Anthology from Applebeard Editions (Winter 2019)
- South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (non-fiction) published by NeWest Press on October 15, 2019
- “Nightwalking” (flash fiction) published in Blank Spaces (Volume 3, Issue 3; March 2019) & Just Words (Volume 3; Fall 2019)
- “El Cien” (poetry) published in AntiLang (Issue 3; Winter 2019)
- “24 hours in the desert: a record-breaking ride at the World Time Trial Championships” (race report) published in Canadian Cycling blog (Nov 2018)
- “Moose Mother” (fiction) published in The Quilliad (Volume 10; Fall 2018)
- “Bout Day” (poetry) published in untethered (Volume 4.1; Spring 2018)
- “The Granite Anvil 1200K” (ride report) published in American Randonneur (Winter 2017)
- “Across America: The 2017 Trans Am Bike Race” (race report) published in BC Randonneurs newsletter and online (September 2017)
- “Eureka_to_San_Francisco_Disk_1_207.jpg ” (poetry) published in Poetry All Over the Floor, the Tonight It’s Poetry anthology (May 2017)
- “Whale Songs” (personal essay) published in Cargo Lit Mag (April 2017)
- “Mermaid for Hire” (personal essay) published in Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing (Spring 2016)
- “Where the Tide Rushes Between” (personal essay) published in One Throne (Issue 7; Fall 2015)
- “I Wait for Mars” (flash fiction) published online in the Mandalit project (July 2015)
- “Highway to Neverland” (prose) published in untethered (Volume 2.1; Summer 2015)
- “Shingle Spit Road” (flash fiction) published in The Fieldstone Review (Issue 8; Summer, 2015) as well as “No Extra Words” podcast (Issue 54; July 2016)
- “Point of No Return” (personal essay) published in Rove, an Okanagan College chapbook about travel, as well as online in Road Maps & Life Rafts (Spring 2015)
- “Cycling North Cascades Highway” (flash fiction) published online in Brilliant Flash Fiction (Spring 2015)
- “Blueberry Inn” (fiction) published in Pulp Mag, Kwantlen Polytechnic’s literature and fine arts magazine (Issue 5; November 2013)
- Articles published in Momentum Mag, online and in print (2012 to 2013)
Speaking & Appearances
- Fuelling the Silk Road: Racing and Eating Across Kyrgyzstan, virtual at the Patagonia Store Toronto in partnership with Pedals & Provisions
- Adventure Writing: From Backyard to Big Mountains (virtually June 2025 with Federation of BC Writers; in-person Nov 2024 with Hemlock Micro Studio)
- How to Pack Your Bags for Bikepacking Talk at ChainLine Cycle, Kelowna and Sun Country Cycle, Coldstream (July and September 2025)
- Mountain Race Series Recaps at ChainLine Cycle, Kelowna (February, July, and Sept 2025))
- Author Talk and Reading at The Word on the Street Lethbridge (September 2024)
- Reading and Bikepacking Q&A at Vancouver Island Bikepack Collective Saturna Island Campout (August 2024)
- Reading and Bikepacking Q&A at Huckleberry Books, Cranbrook (July 2024)
- Big Rides & Bikepack Racing at Okanagan Regional Library, Vernon (May 2024, May 2025)
- Big Rides & Bikepack Racing at MEC Kelowna, Kelowna (March 2024)
- Adventure Travel: Reading + Conversation, virtual (December 2023)
- Shifting Gears on the Log Drivers Waltz + Q&A, virtual (November 2023)
- Reading and Bikepacking Q&A at Russell Books, Victoria (September 2023)
- Reading and Bikepacking Q&A at Huckleberry Books, Cranbrook (September 2023)
- From Pacific Coast to Publication: A CNF Book Journey (virtual July 2023 with Federation of BC Writers; in-person May 2023 with Central Okanagan Writers)
- Keynote speaker & panelist at Canadian Shield Bikepacking Summit(Chelsea, Quebec (June 2023)
- Reading at Basecamp Gravel, Summerland (June 2023)
- Reader at Summerland Launch: Ecology + Bicycle Travel (March 2023)
- Bikepacking Presentation with Q & A at Liv Vancouver (October 2022)
- Speaker at X Elle Cycling Club‘s Season Wrap Up (September 2021)
- 4 Bicycle Stories: reading on Short Story Saturday, A Writer’s Life Podcast (May 2021)
- Reader at River Volta Reading Series (January 2021)
- Panelist on Read the North: Writing North Book Club (January 2021)
- YouTube Reading from South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (May 2020)
- Zoom LIVE Reading to celebrate 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Award nomination (May 21 2020)
- Book launch readings in Edmonton, Kelowna, and Saskatoon (Fall 2019)
- Speaker at Bridge City Bike Co-op/Bike Doctor Speaker Series (November 2019)
- Topic: NorthCape4000: By Bicycle, Until the End of the World
- Speaker at SaskSport Lunch & Learn Session
- Topic: NorthCape4000: By Bicycle, Until the End of the World (November 2019)
- Speaker at Bridge City Bike Co-op/Bike Doctor Speaker Series (January 2019)
- Topic: 24 Hours in the Desert during the World Time Trial Championships
- Presentation at Anza-Borrego Natural History Association (Nov 2018)
- Topic: Bike Touring 101
- Interviews with FitSpeek podcast (July 2017 & October 2018)
- Speaker at Bridge City Bike Co-op/Bike Doctor Speaker Series (April 2018)
- Topic: Across America with the Trans Am Bike Race
- Reader at Saskatoon Cycles BikeArt Show (March 2018)
- Guest instructor at Sage Hill Teen Writing Workshop (August 2017)
- Reader at untethered’s Saskatoon magazine launch (July 2017)
- Reader at River Volta Reading Series: Bike Week Edition (August 2016)
- Reader at Temperance Parklet Community Potluck (May 2016 & August 2017)
- Reader at Saskatoon Cycles Ice Cycle (February 2016)
- Reader at Eat These Words, a Slow Food Saskatoon event (May 2015)
- Reader at River Volta Reading Series MFA Night (April 2015 & April 2016)
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