Sam Head graduated from BYU-Idaho with a bachelor's degree in Theatre and Speech Education. He continued his graduate studies with a master's degree in English from Idaho State University and a Rhetoric, Composition, a d Literacy program at Ohio State University.
Professor Head worked for a few years at Ohio State University as a program administrator for a first-year writers and as a digital media project administrative assistant. He helped develop technical documentation for company Nationwide before accepting a faculty position in the Department of English at BYU-Idaho in 2020.