Fernando Contreras Castro, is a Costa Rican writer who was born in the province of Alajuela, on January 4, 1963.
He is an author of new classics in the national literature.
He teaches in the School of Communication in the University of Costa Rica.
Contreras helps to form a new Costa Rican narrative which breaks with the costumbrism of the 40 generation and with the urban generation of the 60's, and along with other writers like Anacristina Rossi, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Tatiana Lobo and Ana IstarĂº, part of the so-called generation of disenchantment.