Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer whose work seeks to reclaim voices edited out of history. Her ancestral roots trace back to Phoenicia, a heritage that informs her exploration of erased narratives. A recipient of the Julia Peterkin Literary Award, the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and the New Flash Fiction Review Award, she has also been shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize. Her writing has earned multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. Donna holds a BA with Class Honors from the University of Michigan and a dual MA/MFA from American University where she was a teaching fellow. She served for two years as a visiting scholar in Southeast Asia. After a decade of leading executive programs at Stanford University, she now serves as a Senior Research Program Manager at the Hoover Institution.