Christine Stroud is a poet, editor, and publisher living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Autumn House Press, where she has worked since 2013 and has led the press since 2016. As an editor, she has worked on more than 50 books and has extensive experience in developmental editing, acquisitions, book production, marketing, and nonprofit publishing.

Stroud is the author of the chapbooks The Buried Return (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Sister Suite (Disorder Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, Ninth Letter, Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review, and other journals and anthologies, including The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University and was an Innovative Leader Scholar in Book Publishing at the 2019 Yale Publishing Course.