Donna Obeid is a literary fiction writer and educator based in Stanford, California. Her short fiction has been published widely in journals such as Across the Margin, Baltimore Review, Carve Magazine, Ghost Parachute, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Los Angeles Review, Milk Candy Review, and New Flash Fiction Review, among many others.

Her work has been recognized with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and the Best of the Net Anthology. She is also the recipient of writing prizes from the Julia Peterkin Literary Awards, New Flash Fiction Review Awards, and the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. Most recently, she was shortlisted (placing among the top 1.5% of writers) for the Granum Foundation Prize for her short story collection currently 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 in Washington, D.C., where she was a teaching fellow. She served for two years as a visiting scholar in Southeast Asia, where she designed and launched educational programs for students and institutions. For over a decade, she developed and led custom and executive education programs for both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering. She now serves as Senior Research Program Manager at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, spearheading new initiatives at the critical intersection of emerging technology, global leadership, policy, and society.