Hebert Poll Gutierrez is a Cuban Canadian author, storyteller, poet, and playwright with 16 years of experience currently based in Calgary. He believes in the power of stories and theater to shape realities. Art is his strategy to defend his triple cultural identity: His identity as an artist, a Cuban, and Afro-descendant.

Hebert has published nine books in several genres (poetry, theater, and short fiction). His latest book is “Whispers from the Black Gods” (Poetry)(The Elite Lizzard Publishing Company, Canada, 2022)