Jamie Zeppa is the author of Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan,[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.
[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][verification needed] She now teaches literature at Seneca College in Toronto.