Billy Merrell (born January 7, 1982) is an American author and poet.
He published his first book Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir, with Scholastic in 2003.
He also co-edited The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities for Knopf Books for Young Readers with David Levithan.
[1] Merrell lives in Brooklyn with his husband Nico Medina.
He grew up in Jacksonville, FL and then moved to New York, where he lives now.