Laura Bullard is a fact-checker, writer, and editor. She is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

As a fact-checker and researcher, her clients include Esquire, the New York Times, Jezebel, Entrepreneur magazine Vox Media, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Los Angeles Times, and Crooked Media, among others. ​

Her full-length manuscript fact-checking portfolio includes: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly (Simon & Schuster), Republic of Lies by Anna Merlan (Macmillan), Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin (Hachette Books), and The Motherlode by Clover Hope (Abrams Books), among others.

Her podcast fact-checking portfolio includes Larger than Life (The Los Angeles Times), This Land (Crooked Media), and Future Perfect (Vox Media), among others (forthcoming).

In her journalistic practice, Laura focuses on the interplay between identity and power structures with a focus on gender, sexuality, race, and mental illness. She has written for the New York Times, MarieClaire.com, The Bitter Southerner, and Jezebel, among others.

She lives with her wife Kayla E. in North Carolina.

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