Pamela Jean Tinnen
Pamela Jean Tinnen
Carolyn’s friend since childhood, Pamela conceived of the Carolyn Bush Living Archive in 2019 and oversees it’s management and curation.
Pamela Jean Tinnen is a curator, art dealer and writer based in New York. Pamela has worked for over a decade as a curator specializing in public-art at NYU, as well as for contemporary art galleries. In 2019, she founded her gallery, High Priestess Project where she focuses on emerging artists with exceptional talent and upmarket appeal. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University, and a BA in Literature from the University of South Florida.
Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard
Friend of Carolyn and author Sarah Gerard is generously contributing proceeds from the sale of the book of Carrie, Carolyn, Coco to fund the Carolyn Bush Living Archive.
Sarah has authored several other books including the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; a coauthored art book, Recycle; and the chapbook The Butter House. Sarah’s short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida, One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism, Tampa Bay Noir, Erase the Patriarchy, I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, and FLORIDA! A Hyper-local Guide to the Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy of the Most Far-out State in America.