Danabelle Gutierrez is a writer born in the Philippines and raised in Cairo, Vienna, and Muscat. She has been moving from country to country, taking photographs along the way since she was eight-years old. Her three-decade long life journey seems to have taken a longer pit stop in Dubai where she now lives, loves, and writes.

She is Illustrado's 100 Most Influential Filipinos in the Gulf 2016, 2017, and 2018; the recipient of The Filipino Times Artist of the Year Award 2017; and FWN's 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the World 2018.

Danabelle is the author of Tears Across The Earth and other collections.