Jamie Zeppa is the author of '' Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan'', 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 Sault Ste. Marie is a cross-border region of Canada and the United States located on St. Marys River, which drains Lake Superior into Lake Huron. Founded as a single settlement in 1668, Sault Ste. Marie was divided in 1817 by the establishment of ...

Career

At age 23, Zeppa took a job teaching English in

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. 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 Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is a multiple-campus public college in the Greater Toronto Area, and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada regions. It offers full-time and part-time programs at the baccalaureate, diploma, certificate and ...

in Toronto.

Books

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