Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English artist, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work - he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early poetry and the novels My Fault (1996), Notebooks of a Naked Youth (1997), Sex Crimes of the Futcher (2004) - The Idiocy of Idears (2007), as well as in many of his music lyrics. Childish had a relationship in the 1980s with artist Tracey Emin and has also been associated with another British artist Stella Vine.