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