Gwen Adams is a writer, playwright, speaker, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute. She is the author of By an Unexpected Way: Stories of the New Evangelization (Augustine Institute Press, 2019). With experience in parish, diocesan, school and university settings, she has produced plays, taught history, literature, and writing, and offered courses on the New Evangelization, Catholic Education, and Reform and Renewal within the Catholic Church. Directing credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Uncle Vanya, and Life is a Dream. Her master's thesis focused on fairytales; her dissertation gathered interviews with men and women about parish renewal. When she's not inventing funny, hopeful stories, she's retelling the stories of others, past and present, unexpected and full of wonder.