Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer and Senior Research Program Manager based in Northern California. 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 fiction awards; her work has received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her stories have appeared in more than thirty publications, including The Baltimore Review, Carve, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute’s 2026 anthology, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, and Milk Candy Review. Beyond her creative work, she leads strategic initiatives 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.