Jamie Zeppa

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 later 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.[verification needed]

She now teaches literature at Seneca College in Toronto.

Books


Year Title Publisher Awards
1999 Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan 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

References

  1. ↑ "50 people to know in the Himalayas". 12 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Landau, Emily (11 March 2011). "Book Review: Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa". National Post. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  3. ↑ Kowalski, William (8 April 2011). "Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. 1 2 Marshall, Jeannie (28 June 1998). "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". National Post.
  5. ↑ Clark, Pauline (26 October 2012). "Write on! Author tickled her work inspired travel". Sault Star.