Jamie Zeppa


Jamie Zeppa is the author of , which won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for Adventure Travel Writing, and a novel, Every Time We Say Goodbye.

Childhood and education

Zeppa's parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her grandparents in Sault Ste. Marie.

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.
She now teaches literature at Seneca College in Toronto.

Books


YearTitlePublisherAwards
1999The Berkley Publishing Group,
Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for Adventure Travel Writing
2011Every Time We Say GoodbyeKnopf CanadaA Globe and Mail Best Book of 2011 selection