A native son of Minneapolis, Vincent Wyckoff dedicated a career to the U.S. Postal Service. His first book, Beware of Cat: and Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier, celebrates the stories of people on his route. Prior to that, he served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, and attended the University of Minnesota. For a short time he lived on the North Shore of Lake Superior, from which he developed the background for Black Otter Bay, his first work of fiction. Nightwatchers is the sequel. His stories have been published in several local periodicals, as well as the anthology, Home. Wyckoff and his wife, Sybil, live in Minneapolis. They have three children and six grandchildren.