Ashutosh Potdar is an award-winning Marathi writer of several one-act and full-length plays, poems, and short fiction. He also writes scholarly essays in Marathi and English and has co-edited a volume of essays on performance-making and the archive, and an anthology of art writing in Marathi to be published by Routledge India and Sharjah Art Foundation respectively. Ashutosh edits हाकारा । hākārā, a peer-reviewed bilingual journal of creative expression published online in Marathi and English. He is the recipient of several awards for his writing, including the Maharashtra government’s Ram Ganesh Gadkari Award. Ashutosh teaches literature and drama at FLAME University, Pune.