Johanna Billings is an award-winning writer and photographer turned antique dealer. She has been writing and shooting photos professionally for more than 30 years, half of which were spent covering the antiques and collectibles trade for publications such as AntiqueWeek and Antique Trader Weekly. She served as a price guide advisor to Warman’s and Antique Trader and was hired as a vetter for the former Atlantique City antique show, where her job was to spot reproductions masquerading as antiques and have them removed from the show floor.

In 2020, she and her husband, Sean, purchased a shuttered antique shop in Monson, Maine, and reopened it as The Lily Cat: Northwoods Antiques and Buttons. Now, she uses her writing and photography skills to promote the shop.

Before launching the business, Johanna worked for both daily and weekly newspapers in her native Pennsylvania and her adopted Maine home as a writer, photographer and editor. Her work has garnered recognition on the state, New England and national level in categories as diverse as investigative journalism, features, business and photography. Her work has also appeared in magazines such as Redbook, Cat Fancy and Down East. She and her husband, Sean, co-authored a dozen books on antique glass and local history. They live in Greenville, Maine, with their three cats, Pasheva, Lily, and the Little Guy.