In addition to his photography work, Van Sise is both a published author and translator. His written work has earned him residencies at Millay Arts, Serenbe and the New York Public Library; he has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize and the Travel Media Awards for feature writing, and the winner of the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction.
Published and Scheduled Literary Work:
Books:
"Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry" (with foreword by Mary-Louise Parker)- Schaffner Press/IPG (full length illustrated book, 186pp, 2019) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Independent Publishers Book Awards gold medal winner | Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
"Invited to Life: After the Holocaust" (with essays by Dr. Mayim Bialik, Neil Gaiman, and Sabrina Orah Mark) -Schiffer Publishing (full length illustrated book, 224pp, 2022) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound
"On the National Language: The Poetry of America's Endangered Tongues" -Schiffer Publishing (full length illustrated book, 204pp, 2024)
"Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic" - Tupelo Press (contributor; full length illustrated book, 250pp, 2020)
"Untethered: Living the Digital Nomad Life in an Uncertain World" - Exisle Publishing (foreword contributor; full length book, 223 pp, 2023)
"The Year" - Crack the Spine Press (contributor; anthology of short non-fiction)
Travel Essays:
"A Thorn or Two" - Intrepid Times (travel essay- Kosovo)
"Can You Hear Me Now?" - Nowhere Magazine (travel essay- Outer Mongolia) | featured on The Rumpus
"A Treasured Guest" - Intrepid Times (travel essay/humor- Kazakhstan)
"We'll Kill a Man in the Morning" - Intrepid Times (travel essay- Oklahoma) | finalist for the Travel Media Award for Feature Writing
"Tokyo Rising" - BuzzFeed News (travel essay/humor-Japan)
"The Hostile Mirror" - Atlas Obscura (travel essay - Sardinia)
"High Water" - Wanderlust Magazine (travel essay- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
"Daytime Effects" - River River (short travel essay- Great Smoky Mountains)
"Stuffed Reindeer for Sale" - Intrepid Times (travel essay- Arctic Finland)
"Blow Something Up" - Intrepid Times (travel writing suggestions)
Nonfiction:
"Faux Pas" - The Southampton Review (memoir)
"You, or Someone You Know" - The North American Review (essay) | winner of the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction
"A Life Worth Dying For" - The Intrepid Times (creative non-fiction)
"The Infinite Highway" - The Intrepid Times (creative non-fiction)
"From Parents the Same" - The North American Review (essay)
"Other People's Bodies"- The Los Angeles Review (creative non-fiction)
"Body Language"- Poets & Writers Magazine (essay)
"Rainstorm, South Dakota" - Cutleaf (essay)
"That Others" - Tupelo Quarterly
"No One's From Nowhere" - Eclectica (creative non-fiction)
"Sometimes for Love" - Newfound (creative non-fiction)
"Salvation"- Stonecrop Magazine (creative non-fiction)
"The Night Shift"- Stonecrop Magazine (creative non-fiction)
"Spandex World" - River River (creative non-fiction)
"Bombed at Pearl Harbor" - As You Were (creative non-fiction)
"1000" - Stonecrop Magazine (essay)
"Lost, in Translation" - Collateral (military creative non-fiction)
"The Monks of Manhattan" - Photo Brigade (essay with photographs)
Poetry:
"Natural Attraction" - The Los Angeles Review
"October" - Thimble
"Nothingness" - Hayden's Ferry Review
"Divorce" - Museum of Americana
"Training Center Cape May" and "Peterson Air Force Base" - Collateral
"Unhide and Seek" - And So It Goes, the Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum
"Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco" - Line of Advance | winner of the Colonel Darren L. Wright Memorial Writing Award
"Santo Domingo" and "The Man Watching Porn on the 7 Train" - Anacapa Review
"The Best Cake Ever Made in Nassau County" and "Suddenly in Mourning"- Pirene's Fountain
"Neruda" - The Moonstone Arts Center
"Persian Flaw," "U Break It U Buy It," and "Unhide and Seek" - B O D Y
"Expulsion" - Santa Clara Review
"Baseball"-Rattle | finalist for the 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize
Fiction:
"Hoping You Are Too" - The MacGuffin
"Bino in the Garden of Good and Evil" - Half and One
"To Whom It May Concern"- Virga Magazine
"Back From a Four Week Cruise Down the Nile"- 42 Stories Anthology
"New Voice Memo"- Ripples in Space
Reviews and Criticism:
Reviews in The New York Journal of Books