Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet. He was born in London to an English Father and an Icelandic Mother, and his family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at the Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education. Having worked as a nuclear physics technician and agricultural labourer, he began writing full-time in 1973, occasionally teaching and writing journalism.