Donna Obeid is a literary fiction writer living in Stanford, California. Her short fiction has appeared widely in such journals as 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. Her stories have 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.

Born and raised in a suburb outside of Detroit, Donna 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. She has lived in North Africa, 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.