Rob Salem, the Star's television critic, describes his column as the print equivalent of inviting him into your home and handing over the remote control . . . without having to feed him. Reviews and previews, interviews and overviews, industry news and celebrity schmooze, let Salem be your TV guide. When not hunched over his keyboard he can generally be found in a prone position, basking in the familiar, flickering glow of a television screen. Hear him speak in The Toronto Star Tent at 1:00 with Linda Barnard and Peter Howell.

Moira Sanders is a fifth-generation native of Harrow, Ontario. After graduating from culinary school, she worked in restaurants across Canada from Meinhardt in Vancouver to Senses in Toronto. Come see her on the Cooks ‘n’ Books stage at 5:00 with Lori Elstone.

Robert J. Sawyer has won all three top science-fiction awards. In 2008, Quill & Quire named him one of the 30 most influential people in CanLit. He lives in Mississauga. Come see him in the Penguin Group Canada Tent at 3:00.

Emily Schultz is the former editor of THIS Magazine and Broken Pencil. She is also the author of the Trillium Book Award nominated novel, Heaven Is Small.  Schultz resides in Toronto where she co-founded the literary website Joyland. Her writing has appeared in Descant, Geist, Event, The Walrus, Matrix and others. See her on the Digital Drive Stage at 2:00 with Brian Joseph Davis, Michael Fox, and Connor McCreery.

Richard Scrimger is the award-winning author of several novels, picture books, screenplays, and short stories. Me & Death: An Afterlife Adventure (Tundra Books) is a hilarious, bleak, and ultimately hopeful visit to the afterworld. See him in the Great Books Marquee at 1:15 with Gillian Cummings, Alice Kuipers, and Allan Stratton.

Charles Perth has left his comfortable life in Toronto to complete a record-setting trek across the Arctic Circle. He has trained for the cold—but nothing can prepare him for the deadly game of sabotage being played from far away by his unstable and resentful dying brother. Mark Sedore’s Snowmen won the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. See him in The Great Books Marquee at 12:00 with Michael Lista and Iain Reid.

Denis Shackel is head of Management Communications at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Born in New Zealand, he has a Masters in Psychology from Canterbury University and a PHD from the University of Toronto. See him in The Great Books Marquee at 12:45.

Mira Shenker is the executive editor at Actual Media Inc. and has been the editor of ReNew Canada, the infrastructure industry’s only comprehensive news source, since 2007. She specializes in environmental journalism, and regularly writes on topics ranging from green building and sustainable development to project finance. Join her at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 2:15

God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging.  Vivek Shraya is a transplanted prairie boy living in Toronto. Active in the local queer community, he’s also a musician who has toured North America. Join him in the Great Books Marquee at 4:45 with Jeff Latosik and Dorothy Ellen Palmer.

Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal and has worked in a wide variety of media, including magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their two sons. See him in The Remarkable Reads Tent at 3:00.

Antanas Sileika is the artistic director of The Humber School for Writers. His most recent novel, Woman in Bronze, was a Globe Best Book.  His new novel, Underground, will be published by Thomas Allen in the Spring of 2011. He is hosting the Wordship Marquee with Kim Moritsugu.

Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth – Lisa Slater arrived with a spatula. Although Lisa believes she started cooking at the age of three months, family lore says her baking career began with a pineapple upside-down cake at the age of nine. She is hosting the Cooks n’ Books stage with Alison Fryer.

Dan Smith is the book editor at the Toronto Star and author of The Seventh Fire: The Struggle for Aboriginal Government. He is hosting The Toronto Star Tent from 1:00 – 5:00.

Russell Smith, has published several novels including fables and pornopgraphy. His most recent novel is Girl Crazy. He has also been a Globe and Mail columnists for many years, and presently writes two columns for that paper. Hear him speak at The Wordshop Marquee at 5:00 with Andrew Pyper and Anthony De Sa.

Bruno St-Aubin is an award-winning illustrator of many children’s books, most notably his collaboration with author Gilles Tibo on the Nicholas series: Where’s My Hockey Sweater?, Hurry Up, Nicholas!, The Best Goalie Ever and Too Many Books!, which was selected for the TD Canada Grade One giveaway in 2008.  He lives in Montreal, Quebec. See him in the Children’s Reading Tent at 12:30.

Allan Stratton is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, including Chanda’s Secrets and Chanda’s Wars. Borderline (HarperTrophy Canada) is the gripping tale of a boy whose family suddenly finds his family at the centre of an international terror plot. See him in the Great Books Marquee at 1:15 with Gillian Cummings, Alice Kuipers and Richard Scrimger.

Kevin Sylvester is a renowned author, illustrator, and broadcaster. An award-winning sportscaster for seven years, he is well-known to listeners of CBC Radio One for broadcasting national sports and anchoring radio coverage for four Olympic Games. He is now a regular on “Here and Now,” “The Current,” and “The Sunday Edition.” See him in The Children’s Reading Tent at 4:10.