Lara Johnson has an MBA in Finance from George Washington University, a BS in Mass Communications, with a major in Advertising from Virginia Commonwealth University and an AA in Liberal Arts from Northern Virginia Community College. She has worked as a financial analyst and in marketing/advertising positions at various companies in different industries for a number of years. She was born and grew up in Loudoun County, Virginia and now lives outside New York City. In 2022, she published a chapbook: A star 3 trees and a venus flytrap which consists primarily of aphorisms that tell a philosophy. In 2017, she compiled a collection of columns describing the events of Bluemont, a small town located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, into a book entitled: A decade of Bluemont News. The weekly columns written by her mother, Evelyn Porterfield Johnson, cover the years 1969-1979 and originally appeared in the Loudoun Times-Mirror newspaper. In 2025, she published the weekly columns into two books: 1969-1974 Bluemont News and 1975-1979 Bluemont News. In 2012, she published an autobiographical fiction novel entitled: Reach the Beach.