Poet and novelist, Bachelor of Arts, Specialist in Literary Studies, Master of Literature and Cultural Diversity and Ph.D. in Literature and Culture, teacher with Exclusive Dedication (DE) of the State University of Bahia - UNEB, Department of Human Sciences and Technologies - DCHT XVI, and Director of this Department, which also carries out projects with the Extension interface Literature and other arts. Member of ABRALIC, researcher in Bahia’s Literature, especially in the work of Herbert Sales and other writers of “baianidade”; he is coordinating the research project on the fictional and poetic authorship of Bahia, with the participation of several graduate students. He is also a researcher of the research group: Literary Criticism and Cultural Identity (CLIC).