Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer and educator based in Stanford, California. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize and recognized as a finalist for the Raymond Carver and Julia Peterkin awards, among others; she is also a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She serves as Senior Research Program Manager for the Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator. Prior to joining Hoover, she directed executive education programs for Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering. Earlier in her career, she was a two-year visiting scholar in Southeast Asia. She holds a dual MA/MFA from American University and a BA with Honors from the University of Michigan.