Billy Manas is the author of Kickass Recovery: From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams (New World Library, 2020) and the creator of the weekly Substack newsletter Manas From Heaven. His writing has appeared in Elephant Journal, Good Men Project, YourTango, and other publications.

As a recovery advocate with over two decades of lived experience, Billy regularly shares insights and resources with people in treatment centers and correctional facilities. He is currently completing We Are Stardust, a young adult historical fiction novel set during the summer of 1969, culminating at Woodstock.

A published poet and twenty-year veteran singer-songwriter, Billy has performed throughout the Hudson Valley. He lives in New Paltz.