Stephanie Laurens (born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), is an Australian author of romance novels.

Stephanie Laurens was born on 14 August 1953 in Sri Lanka. When she was 5, her family moved to Melbourne, where she was raised. After continuing through school and earning a PhD in Biochemistry in Australia, Laurens and her husband moved to Great Britain.

Once in London, Laurens and her husband both began work as research scientists in Kent.

After four years in England, Laurens and her husband returned to Australia, where she continued to work in cancer research, eventually heading her own research laboratory. One evening she realised that she did not have any more of her favourite romance novels to read, and wrote her first book, Tangled Reins. She became a full-time novelist. Her novels are primarily historical romances set in the Regency time period.

Stephanie Laurens and her husband live in Melbourne with their two cats.