Erin Strout is an award-winning journalist who writes about health, fitness, and Olympic sports with a focus on the issues that women face as they strive to perform and feel their best. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, ESPN, Self, Women's Health, Well+Good, Outside, Triathlete, and more. She also served as senior writer at Women's Running, contributing editor at Runner's World, and senior editor at Running Times.
Erin co-authored the book 'Race Everything: How to Conquer Any Race at Any Distance in Any Environment and Have Fun Doing It,' with Bart Yasso, and 'The Price She Pays: The Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports—From the Schoolyard to the Stadium,' with Tiffany Brown, Ph.D., and Katie Steele, LMFT.
Since 2013, Erin has covered the top levels of sports, from NCAA championships, Olympic Trials, and the World Marathon Majors, to the Rio and Tokyo Olympics. She is also a former staff reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, where she covered philanthropy and wrote in-depth pieces concerning the NCAA and campus health. She’s the recipient of the 2023 George Hirsch Journalism Award, presented by the New York Road Runners in recognition of outstanding storytelling in women’s sports.