Mark S. Lindensmith

Lindensmith is a native of Missouri, and he is a 1976 honors graduate of Missouri Western State College. He received his law degree from the University of Nebraska in 1979 and was admitted to the Nebraska State Bar in 1979. He has been a member of the Virginia State Bar since 1981, and he is a member of the American Bar Association and is a past member of the American Association for Justice. In addition to serving as a senior attorney with the research and consulting firm, he has represented children as a certified guardian ad litem in the Albemarle County area, and he has written a number of legal articles over the years for various publications, including TRIAL Magazine, American Law Reports, Causes of Action, and others. In his spare time, he has written award-winning fiction, including numerous short stories for various magazines and literary journals, has been a resident fellow in fiction writing at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and he was the recipient of a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts for a novel-in-progress. His first collection of short stories was published by Southern Methodist University Press in 1996.

He and his wife, Gaytha, make their home in Bridgewater, Virginia, and they have six adult children.