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Alan Lee Contreras (born Mar 11, 1956) is an American writer, poet, birdwatcher, and education consultant. He is best known for his contributions to Oregon ornithology and his work in higher education. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, and works part-time for the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA), the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and Oregon State University Press.[1][2]

Alan L. Contreras
Born (1956-03-11) March 11, 1956 (age 66)
Tillamook County, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationWriter, education consultant
Alma materUniversity of Oregon (B.S.)
University of Oregon School of Law (Juris Doctor)
Periodc. 1978-present
GenrePoetry, nature writing

Personal


Contreras is a fourth-generation Oregonian born in Tillamook County.[2]


Career


Contreras began birding at the age of 11 and started a bird newsletter, The Meadowlark, a year later.[1]

He was one of the founders of Oregon Field Ornithologists (now the Oregon Birding Association) in 1978.[3] In 1982, he received a Bachelor of Science in political science from the University of Oregon. He finished his Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1985.[4]

He was head of the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization from 1999 until March 2011. He also spent three years working for the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education, four years at the University of Oregon and six years with the Oregon Community College Association.[2]

Throughout this time, Contreras authored several bird books and books of poetry. 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.[5][6][7][8]

Contreras was a mentor to renowned birder Noah Strycker when Strycker was a teenager.[9]


Books


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.[10]

In 2014, he released a book on C.E.S. Wood, Pursuit of Happiness: An Introduction to the Libertarian Ethos of Charles Erskine Scott Wood.[4]

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


Published works



References


  1. "The Process of Publishing: An Interview with Alan Contreras". OSU Press. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. "Teacher Standards and Practices Commission". Oregon.gov. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  3. "About the Committee". Oregon Birding Association. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  4. Bjornstad, Randi. "Bringing Wood to Life". The Register-Guard. The Register-Guard. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  5. Contreras, Alan. "The Birth of Fantasy". The Gay & Lesbian Review. The Gay & Lesbian Review. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. "North American Birds, Volume 54, Number 1 (2000)". Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA). Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  7. Contreras, Alan (August 2008). "On Shelving Christopher Hitchens". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  8. Contreras, Alan; Gollin, George (2009). "The Real and the Fake Degree and Diploma Mills". Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. Change: The Magazine of Higher Education. 41 (2): 36–43. doi:10.3200/CHNG.41.2.36-43. S2CID 143056713.
  9. Contreras, Alan (2009). Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0870714207.
  10. Contreras, Alan (2013-07-01). Song After All: The Letters of Reginald Shepherd and Alan Contreras. CraneDance Publications. ISBN 978-0989384834.





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