Aruna Ramchandra Dhere (born 2 February 1957) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

[1] She was the President of the 92nd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Yavatmal in 2019.

Aruna Dhere has been a multi-disciplinary freelance writer and researcher in the field of Marathi literature, credited with : About 40 books covering a wide spectrum of' Starting around 1990, Dhere took up a full-time career as a writer.

Her literary works include personal essays, short stories, novels, poems, travelogues, children’s stories, and books on sant literature, folk literature, and social history.

She has written on the lives especially of women from earlier times who rebelled against old traditions.