Joy Johnston is an award-winning author, digital journalist and caregiver advocate. She received a gold medal at the 2018 IPPY Awards for her personal essay collection, The Reluctant Caregiver. She also received the 2015 Rick Bragg Prize for Nonfiction from the Atlanta Writers Club. Her work has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and other anthologies. She writes about dementia and caregiving on her award-winning blog, The Memories Project. Her latest project, Slow Dog, is her first children’s book and was selected as a finalist in the 2022 Indies Today Awards contest. She lives in Atlanta with her senior rescue dog and a pair of tuxedo rescue cats.