Creative Capital

Paul Beatty

Poet and novelist Paul Beatty is the author of two volumes of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and three novels, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle, and Slumberland. He is also the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. His essays have appeared in Village Voice, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Jasper Johns Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.