Plum Johnson is a Canadian writer and publisher, who won the RBC Taylor Prize in 2015 for her memoir They Left Us Everything.

[1] Born in Richmond, Virginia, she spent her early childhood living in Asia until her parents moved to Oakville, Ontario.

[2] She studied education at Wheelock College in Boston and theatre at York University in Toronto.

[4] In 2002, she launched Help's Here!, a similar resource publication for senior citizens and caregivers.

Johnson has also studied various art disciplines, including illustration, painting and printmaking.