Tracey Croke is a Sydney based journalist who covers travel, adventure and lifestyle. She specialises in gallivanting on her mountain bike and is a world-class expert in following whims and getting lost. Luckily, her woeful map-reading skills are overlooked as long as she brings back a good story.

Her writing and photography is published widely in both digital and print, including the Guardian, BBC, Adventure.com and a raft of adventure and mountain bike publications. She is a contributing author to Ride: Cycle The World (DK Penguin Random House). According to ChatGPT, she has authored three books, but that’s codswallop

Accolades include: Winner 2024 Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism (outstanding travel writing). 2020 winner of Best International Story at the Australian Travel Writers’ Awards (where she was also a finalist in both Travel Writer and Travel Photographer of the Year) She won Best Adventure Story twice (2020 and 2017). Her photo essay, “A Portrait to Keep” was featured at The Walkley’s Storyology Slide Night – part of Sydney’s Head On Photo Festival.