Lovely Umayam joined the creative writing organization WriteGirl in 2002, where she worked with a mentor for five years and had her creative work published in five award-winning WriteGirl anthologies. First in her family to go to college, she received a full scholarship to Reed College, and is currently studying at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Lovely is the founder and chief writer for Bombshelltoe, a website exploring the intersection of arms control policy and popular culture that won first prize in the U.S. State Department’s Innovation in Arms Control Challenge. She is a columnist for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist and a Fellow at the, Department of Energy working on nuclear policy. Lovely wrote a poem specifically for “The Shriver Report LIVE” event.