Alan Lee Contreras (born Mar 11, 1956) is an American writer, poet, birdwatcher, and education consultant.

His work has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, the American Birding Association's North American Birds, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.

[9] Contreras has had five books published by Oregon State University Press, including Birds of Oregon, which he co-edited, and the more personal Afield: Forty Years Birding the American West.

[1] In 2013, through his own press, Oregon Review Books, he published a collection of correspondence with poet Reginald Shepherd, Song After All: The Letters of Reginald Shepherd and Alan Contreras as a fundraiser for the University of Oregon Creative Writing department.

[4] In 2018, he published a collection of essays, The Captured Flame, with one detailing his friendship with author Ursula K. Le Guin.