Born in Chicago and raised in San Diego, Vincent now calls the New York area home. He spent two years as editor of a group of community newspapers in Union County, New Jersey, before moving to a newsletter marketing company in Springfield, New Jersey, where he serves as a marketing coordinator and assistant managing editor. 

A student of New York City history in his spare time, Vincent blogs at I Happen to Like New York and writes for the Staten Island Advance. In the earlier days of Patch, he wrote the weekly NoonEats column for Springfield Patch and cowrote Morristown Munchies for Morristown Patch. His news, feature and food writing have also appeared in Cranford Patch, Carlsbad Patch and other publications.