Novelist. Poet. Architect.
Environmentalist. Birdwatcher.
ABOUT

Born and raised in Cape Town, Vernon R.L. Head is currently the principal architect at Cape Town’s much-lauded Head & Long Architects and serves as a director on the Board of BirdLife South Africa, one of Africa’s biggest and most successful conservation NGOs. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
In 2017 Vernon R.L. Head was elected as a Fellow International of the Explorers Club in New York for his writings on the environment. Vernon R.L. Head has written three books and edited a collection of short stories. He is presently working on a new novel.”
BOOKS
Vernon R.L Head writes about the natural world and our delicate place at the very edge of the wilderness. His prose screams a warning to the call of the gentle songbird.