Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer of Phoenician heritage. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize and recognized as a finalist for the Julia Peterkin, New Flash Fiction, Raymond Carver, and Seventeen’s fiction awards; her work has received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her stories have appeared in more than thirty journals, including Across the Margin, Baltimore Review, Carve, Cease Cows, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, Milk Candy Review, New Flash Fiction Review, and Portland Review. Beyond her creative work, she leads strategic initiatives for the Technology Policy Accelerator at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Earlier in her career, she was a two-year visiting scholar in Southeast Asia. She holds an MA and MFA from American University and a BA with honors from the University of Michigan. She lives in Northern California.