Mark T. Mitchell teaches political theory at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA. He is the author Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing (ISI Books, 2006) and The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age (Potomac Books, forthcoming). He is co-editor of another book titled, The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry (ISI Books, forthcoming). Currently he is writing a book on private property.

He was raised in Montana and still feels most at home in the west. His favorite place is Spotted Bear, MT, a back-country ranger station on the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, where he spent six idyllic summers as a child. The wind in the tops of the Lodgepole Pines, the wild huckleberries, and the specter of the grizzly bear color the memories of his childhood. The Westslope Cutthroat Trout are still plentiful (though not as plentiful as when he was a kid), and he likes few things better than floating the South Fork of the Flathead River with his own boys, trying to outsmart the trout.

He currently lives in West Virginia (which, despite its name, bears only a slight resemblance to the west) with his wife and three sons, where he cultivates a garden, fruit trees, and a small vineyard (Chambourcin and Norton).

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