Tim Harper has been at the Toronto Star for 28 years. He has been a correspondent in Vancouver and Ottawa, the Ottawa bureau chief, six years as Washington correspondent and since January, 2009, national editor.  He also briefly covered the Toronto Blue Jays for the newspaper. He has covered five Canadian federal elections and two U.S. presidential elections, including the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama. See him in The Toronto Star Tent at 3:00 with Linda Diebel and Chantal Hébert.

Heather Hartt-Sussman, born in Montreal, graduated from Brandeis University and attended the Sorbonne. Nana’s Getting Married is her first book. See her in The Children’s Reading Tent at 1:20.

David Hayes is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in Toronto Life, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Reader's Digest, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times Magazine and others. Come see him moderate 'The Smart Guide to Getting Publishing' in The Canadian Magazines Tent at 5:15.

Chantal Hébert, Toronto Star political columnist, cut her teeth in politics at Queen’s Park in the late seventies covering the minority governments of Progressive-Conservative premier William Davis. Since then she has reported in French and in English on Canada’s constitutional and referendum wars, the 1988 free-trade debate, as well as the more recent rebirth of the Conservative movement. In addition to her columns, Chantal is a regular member of the CBC’s At Issue panel, broadcast weekly on The National. See her in The Toronto Star Tent at 3:00 with Linda Diebel and Tim Harper.

Steven Heighton is the author of the novel Afterlands, which has appeared in six countries and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He is also the author of The Shadow Boxer, a Canadian bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. Join him in The Great Books Marquee at 2:45.

Natascha Helbig is the Senior Manager of Content at Sony Electronics’ Digital Reading Business Division.  As senior product manager for content, Natascha oversees content acquisition and publisher relations at Sony’s Reader Store.  She is responsible for working with all content providers for Sony’s eBook platform, including large, small, independent and self-publishers. See her on the Digital Drive stage with Ashleigh Gardner, Cynthia Good, Allen Lau and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Helen Heller represents an award winning and internationally best selling list, and accepts commercial and literary fiction, specializing in crime fiction. Her career in publishing began in London, England where she worked for Cassell & Co. After immigrating to Canada, she was Senior Editor for Avon Books and Editor-in-Chief for Fitzhenry & Whiteside. She founded the Helen Heller Literary Agency in 1988.   Hear her speak at The Wordshop Marquee at 12:00.

Publishing Director of Doubleday Canada, Lynn Henry, was previously publisher  of House of Anansi, breaking out writers such as Lisa Moore, Michael Winter, Rawi Hage and Ken Babstock. See her at The Wordshop Marquee with Marc Côté.

Sheila Heti is the acclaimed author of the story collection The Middle Stories, and the novel Ticknor, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. She lives in Toronto. See her in the Great Books Marquee at 5:30.

Jessica Holmes is a comedian, writer, actress, and speaker. She has starred in her own comedy series and special, The Holmes Show and Holmes Alone, and in Royal Canadian Air Farce. She has been nominated for several Canadian Comedy Awards as well as the Gemini Award for her TV and sketch comedy work. See her in The Remarkable Reads Tent at 4:50.

Peter Howell is the movie critic for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. Howell is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).He also contributes to thestar.com website and to TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies show. Prior to movies, Howell was the Star's pop music critic. He has been in the Star's Entertainment department since 1991. He was one of the first journalists in North America to begin a regular Internet column, which debuted in January, 1995, under its original title CyberPop. See him speak in The Toronto Star Tent at 1:00 with Linda Barnard and Rob Salem.