Lory Mitchell Wingate

Lory Mitchell Wingate writes across the boundaries of science, story, and spirit. With over twenty-five years of leadership experience spanning both for-profit and non-profit worlds, she is known as a systems thinker who transforms complexity into clarity — whether designing large-scale research programs or crafting narratives that explore what it means to be human.

Her acclaimed works in innovation management — Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes and Systems Engineering for Projects: Achieving Positive Outcomes in a Complex World — have become foundational texts for scientists, engineers, and visionaries navigating discovery in the modern age.

Yet Wingate’s writing extends far beyond the laboratory. In Beyond Words: The Art of Heartfelt Connection, she turns her attention inward, blending poetry, lyricism, and reflection to illuminate the emotional architectures that hold us together. Wanderlust: The Search for New Horizons carries readers into the wild — a lyrical, true-to-life exploration of resilience and renewal on the open trail.

Her newest novel, What Remains, bridges myth, history, and near-future speculation through the voice of the Archivist — a keeper of memory writing from the Companions Epoch, where humanity learns again that remembering is an act of hope.

Whether she’s exploring the engineering of innovation or the engineering of the heart, Wingate writes with the curiosity of a scientist and the soul of a storyteller. Her work invites readers to look deeper — into systems, stories, and the fragile beauty of what endures.