Jamie Zeppa

Jamie Zeppa is the author of Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cntraveller.in/story/50-people-know-himalayas/|title = 50 people to know in the Himalayas|date = 12 October 2017}} which won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for Adventure Travel Writing, and a novel, Every Time We Say Goodbye.{{cite news |last1=Landau |first1=Emily |title=Book Review: Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa |url=https://nationalpost.com/afterword/book-review-every-time-we-say-goodbye-by-jamie-zeppa |accessdate=14 July 2019 |publisher=National Post |date=11 March 2011}}{{cite news |last1=Kowalski |first1=William |title=Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/every-time-we-say-goodbye-by-jamie-zeppa/article597363/ |accessdate=14 July 2019 |publisher=Globe and Mail |date=8 April 2011}}

Childhood and education

Zeppa's parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her grandparents in Sault Ste. Marie.{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Jeannie |title=A life less ordinary: Jamie Zeppa took a long but simplified route to happiness, through the mountains of Bhutan to a quiet, tree- lined street in Canada |publisher=National Post |date=28 June 1998}}

Career

At age 23, Zeppa took a job teaching English in Bhutan. She lived in Bhutan for nine years, converted from Catholicism to Buddhism, and married a former student, actor Tshewang Dendup, with whom she had a son.{{verification needed|date=February 2023}}

She now teaches literature at Seneca College in Toronto.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Pauline |title=Write on! Author tickled her work inspired travel |publisher=Sault Star |date=26 October 2012}}