Grant Gombert

Grant Gombert grew up in the Hill Country of Texas where he received a Liberal Arts education and raised sheep in the town his ancestors helped found. He received his B.A. in Philosophy with honors from Messiah University and his M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. As a child, when asked, Grant would say he wanted to be a tree when he grew up. As of yet, he has failed to sprout even a single leaf, but he has written many pages as a lover of the written and spoken word. Through the influence of several very good teachers, Grant found that teaching – the intellectual life – could be even better than the arboreal life. He now teaches Rhetoric and Humane Letters to students in Richmond, VA. When he is not teaching, you might find him singing in the choir at his parish, planting herbs in his garden, in the midst of a lively discussion over a home cooked dinner, or grappling with someone using his knowledge of Jiu Jitsu.