Donna Obeid’s work has been recognized with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and the Best of the Net Anthology. She is the recipient of writing prizes from the Julia Peterkin Literary Awards, New Flash Fiction Review Awards, and the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest; she was recently shortlisted for the national Granum Foundation Prize.

Born and raised in a suburb outside of Detroit, Donna holds a BA with Class Honors in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a dual MA and MFA from American University in Washington, D.C., where she was a teaching fellow. She served for two years as a visiting scholar in Southeast Asia, where she designed and launched educational programs for students and institutions. For over a decade, she developed and led custom and executive education programs for both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering. She currently serves as Senior Research Program Manager at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.