Donna Obeid is an award-winning author and educator who was born and raised in a suburb outside of Detroit. She holds a BA with Class Honors in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a dual MA and MFA from American University where she was a teaching fellow. She is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Her writing has appeared in The Baltimore Review, BULL, Carve, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hawai`i Pacific Review, The Los Angeles Review, Milk Candy Review, New Flash Fiction Review, and many other journals, and has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net Anthology. She has won writing prizes from the Julia Peterkin Literary Awards, New Flash Fiction Review Awards, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and Seventeen’s Fiction Contest. In 2024, she was amongst the top 1.5% of writers shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize for her short story collection in progress.

Donna has lived in North Africa and Spain and served as a two-year visiting scholar in Southeast Asia. She currently works at Stanford University where she designs, develops, and delivers global executive programs with a focus on innovation, leadership, technology, and the transformational power of story.