Eppu Nuotio (born Eija-Riitta Silvennoinen; 13 February 1962, in Iisalmi, Finland) is a Finnish actress, author, screenwriter, playwright and columnist.

After having graduated from the Iisalmi Lukio (High School), Nuotio studied dance and mime in France and screenwriting in New York City.

The trilogy chronologically tells about the girl's childhood and teen years in the small Eastern Finnish town of Varkaus and finally about her troubled life in Helsinki in her forties.

During 2006–2008 Nuotio created a crime fiction novel trilogy about a young Finnish female journalist called Pii Marin who has to cope with racial slurs while working as the first TV-news anchor of black African origin in Finland.

The Nuotio family lives on a small island called Hitis in the south-western archipelago of Finland ca 130 kilometers west of Helsinki.