Gaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East (UK: Harvill Secker/Vintage, March 28, 2024. US: Dzanc, March 2025.)

His reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, NPR, Slate and VICE. Other work has 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. He received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow and lives in London, UK.