B.A. Van Sise is an author and pho­to­graph­ic artist focused on the inter­sec­tion between lan­guage and the visu­al image. He is the author of two mono­graphs: the visu­al poet­ry anthol­o­gy Chil­dren of Grass: A Por­trait of Amer­i­can Poet­ry with Mary-Louise Park­er, and Invit­ed to Life: After the Holo­caust with Neil Gaiman, May­im Bia­lik, and Sab­ri­na Orah Mark. He has pre­vi­ous­ly been fea­tured in solo exhi­bi­tions at the Cen­ter for Cre­ative Pho­tog­ra­phy, the Cen­ter for Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Muse­um of Jew­ish Her­itage, as well as in group exhi­bi­tions at the Peabody Essex Muse­um, the Muse­um of Pho­to­graph­ic Arts, the Los Ange­les Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy and the Whit­ney Muse­um of Amer­i­can Art; a num­ber of his por­traits of Amer­i­can poets are in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion of the Smith­so­ni­an’s Nation­al Por­trait Gallery.