Jamie Zeppa is the author of ,[1] which won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for Adventure Travel Writing, and a novel, Every Time We Say Goodbye.[2] [3]
Zeppa's parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her grandparents in Sault Ste. Marie.[4]
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.[4]
She now teaches literature at Seneca College in Toronto.[5]
| 1999 | The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Putnam, Inc. | Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for Adventure Travel Writing | ||
| 2011 | Every Time We Say Goodbye | Knopf Canada | A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2011 selection |