Adams, Gaar: - Gaar Adams is an American writer and journalist whose work has been published by The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, NPR, Slate and VICE among others. He is a Penguin Random House WriteNow Grantee and former London Library Emerging Writer. He teaches creative writing on the Master of Arts program at the University of Hull. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Adams received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow and currently lives in London, UK.