Gaar Adams is a writer, journalist and educator. He is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East (UK - Harvill, 2024; US - Dzanc, 2025) which was longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

His reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, VICE and Al Jazeera. His fiction, poetry, and academic writing have been published in anthologies including Justice After Stonewall: LGBT Life Between Challenge and Change (Routledge, 2023), Queer Life, Queer Love (Muswell Press, 2023), Glasgow: Cities Edition (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2022) and The Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection (Speculative Books, 2020.) He is a 2020 London Library Emerging Writer, and his writing has been supported by the Society of Authors, Bothy Project and the Penguin Random House WriteNow Programme.

He has lectured at New York University Abu Dhabi and currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and the BA in Creative Writing at Falmouth University. He received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow and lives in London, UK.