Nilton Resende is from Maceió, Alagoas. He is Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of Alagoas / Campus Zumbi dos Palmares. In the theater, integrates the Cia. Ganymedes of theater. He published the books The Dew and the Days (poetry), Diabolo (short stories), The Construction of Lygia Fagundes Telles: Critical Edition of Before the Green Ball. He has short stories translated and published in French and English magazines. In the cinema, he has worked as an actor, screenwriter, casting coach and casting director. “A Barca” (2019), his first film as a screenwriter and a director, was selected for the Mostra Foco of Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes/2020.