Discipline: Literature

Stephen Billias

Discipline: Literature
Region: Deerfield, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984

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.

Studios

Eastman

Stephen Billias worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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