Timothy Ryan is Executive Producer of the international award-winning feature-length documentary Knots: A Forced Marriage Story, which has appeared in film festivals worldwide. Building on thirty years of work in the labor movement, he is Chairperson of the Global March Against Child Labour. His non-fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, Thomson-Reuters, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Christian Science Monitor, High Times, the Huffington Post, Swamp Ape Review and national newspapers in South Asia and Latin America. An alumnus of the Henry Jackson School at the University of Washington, Masters in South Asian Studies, Timothy is also a member of the National Writers Union. His fiction has appeared in the literary magazines Another Chicago Magazine, The Write Launch, STORGY, Here Comes Everyone, Folio, Fine Madness, Northern Lights, and the Clinton Street Quarterly.