Frank Head was born in Houston, Texas in 1947. He attended Vanderbilt University and then graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. He worked in a great variety of occupations, from itinerant fruit picker to Director of Arkansas Catholic Charities Immigration Services from which he retired in 2019.He married Phyllis Petrella Head in 1973. From then until 1982, they lived in various locations, including central Mexico, Vermont, Austin and Houston, Texas. Since 1982, they have lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas with their six children and six grandchildren. Since 2019, Frank and Phyllis have lived on their fifty acres of Ozark wilderness bordering the Little Buffalo River.
