Donna Obeid is an award-winning author of flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and short stories. 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 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, Best Small Fictions, multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Granum Foundation Prize for her short story collection in progress.

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

Donna has taught college writing and 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.