Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer of short stories, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction born and raised in a suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan.
She earned a BA with Class Honors in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and holds an MA and MFA from American University where she was a teaching fellow.

Her stories have won writing prizes from the Julia Peterkin Literary Awards, New Flash Fiction Review Awards, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and Seventeen’s Fiction Contest. She has been nominated for Best of the Net, multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Granum Foundation Prize.

Her writing appears in or is forthcoming in the Baltimore Review, BULL, Carve, Cease Cows, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Litro, The Los Angeles Review, Milk Candy Review, New Flash Fiction Review, and South 85 Journal, among other anthologies and journals.

Donna previously served as a visiting scholar in Southeast Asia and North Africa; she currently works at Stanford University where she designs, develops, and delivers global executive programs with a focus on innovation, leadership, and the power of story.