Donna Obeid is an award-winning writer of short stories, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Baltimore Review, Carve, Cease, Cows, Defunkt Magazine, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Litro, The Los Angeles Review, The Malibu Times, New Flash Fiction Review, South 85 Journal, and Waterwheel Review, among other anthologies and journals.

She is the recipient of writing prizes from the Julia Peterkin Literary Awards, New Flash Fiction Review Award, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and Seventeen’s Fiction Contest; she has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize.

Donna grew up in a suburb outside of Detroit and earned a BA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds an MA and MFA from American University where she was a teaching fellow. Donna has worked and lived in Southeast Asia and North Africa and has taught college writing, curriculum design/educational program development,
ESL, and research administration. She currently serves as Associate Director of Programs
at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where she facilitates executive education programs for senior-level professionals of global enterprises, allowing them to achieve the best intersection of innovation, leadership, and transformation through narratives. She lives in Palo Alto, California.