Kasper Salonen (b. 1987) is a bilingual spoken word poet, translator, voice actor, and workshop director from Southern Finland. He has written and performed live poetry in English and Finnish since 2010, and worked as a translator for more than a decade. Salonen has published two spoken word EPs with various musicians as well as a chapbook of his early poems. In spring 2021, Enostone Publishing released his Finnish-language debut, Kiertoreittejä, in physical, ebook, and audiobook form later to be followed by a selection of English translations of the poetry of Finnish legend Arto Melleri a world first. Poetry videos are also available and forthcoming. Salonen has produced and hosted dozens of events for the Helsinki Poetry Connection collective, and teaches poetry at the HPCs Spoken Word Academy.