Graham John Billing (12 January 1936 – 11 December 2001) was a New Zealand novelist, journalist and poet.

He had spent four years working on ships, which is reflected in the novel The Slipway.

Billing was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship in Dunedin in 1973.

The poems in Changing Countries were written after two years teaching in Australia from 1974 to 1975.

He also wrote three radio plays and the text for three non-fiction works South: Man and Nature in Antarctica (1964), New Zealand: The Sunlit Land (1966) and The New Zealanders (1975, 1979).