Jarkko Olavi Tontti (born 9 December 1971) is a Finnish novelist, poet, essayist and lawyer.

[1] Tontti studied law, philosophy and literature at the universities of Helsinki, Edinburgh, Berlin and Brussels.

His first poetry collection Vuosikirja (Book of Years, 2006) won the Kalevi Jäntti literature prize for young authors.

Tontti has worked in the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Local Court of Espoo, in the Parliament of Finland and at the University of Helsinki.

His poems have been translated into 20 languages, English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Estonian, German, Greek, Slovenian, Latin, Czech, Marathi, Polish, Mari, Hebrew, Croatian, Romanian and Portuguese.