Zeppa, Jamie

"I'm so grateful that it went this way. There were several times that I could have turned around... I was always given these opportunities to turn back and I'm so glad I didn't."
Born in the Northern Ontario town of Sault-Ste-Marie, Jamie Zeppa was raised by her second-generation Polish grandparents after her parents separated. With her master's degree in English literature from York University and applications to graduate school at the ready, engaged to be married to a fellow academic, she was well on her way to her family's ideal of a good education, a good job and a family. But as she s...