Stephen Billias is the author of seven published science fiction/fantasy novels, including The American Book of the Dead and Quest for the Thirty-Six, both published by Warner Books.
Stephen has also written several screenplays. In 2005 he sold a film treatment with
director/writer John Harrison to The Walt Disney Company for Disney's Animated Features Division. In 2009, Stephen co-produced the documentary Seeking the 36 with director/writer Dennis Lanson.
Stephen is married and has a daughter Sophia, who is in her second year of law school. Stephen’s hobbies include backpacking trips to the Grand Canyon and the Sierra Nevada range, and the practice of Shintaido, a Japanese body movement and martial art. From 2006 to 2016 Stephen and his wife Bela Breslau operated the Shintaido Farm, a center for the practice of Shintaido.
In September, 2019, Odeon Press published Stephen’s literary fiction collection of short stories: A Book of Fields: Tales from the Pioneer Valley.