Pratik Deshhmukh is a writer, actor, and creative producer from Pune, India. His journey has taken him from engineering studies at Purdue University to the world of cinema, where he has worked across film and storytelling in various capacities. He later completed a master’s degree in Information Systems at Santa Clara University, where he began writing. He is the author of Four Days of Magic and Where Do I Fit?: A Novel, both contemporary coming-of-age stories set in urban India, and is currently at work on his third book. Outside of writing, he enjoys reading fiction, brewing coffee and painting.