Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer and program strategist based in Northern California. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize and recognized as a finalist for the Raymond Carver, Julia Peterkin, and New Flash Fiction awards; her work has received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her stories have appeared in Ghost Parachute’s 2026 Anthology, The Baltimore Review, Flash Frog, Hawai`i Pacific Review, and Milk Candy Review, amongst others. Beyond her creative work, 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.