From Davao City, Philippines, Debbie Karol Butay resided in Roskilde, Abu Dhabi, and is now based in London, UK. She earned a degree in Creative Writing in English at the University of the Philippines-Mindanao and was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study at the University College London and Roskilde University, Denmark. Her poem "Somewhere In The Desert, When You Cut A Round Globe In Half , published in Issue 40—"Writing the Philippines"—of Cha, is her first submission to a literary journal. [Poetry]