Laura Bynum (born February 28, 1968, in Springfield, Illinois) is an American author. Her first novel, Veracity, was published in January, 2010.
Bynum graduated from the University of Illinois Springfield and Eastern Illinois University. She received an offer to publish Veracity at the same time she discovered that she had breast cancer. At the 2006 Maui Writers Conference, Bynum won the Rupert Hughes Literary Writing Award for Veracity (then unpublished).