Nicole Flores is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Queen’s University, Canada. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in both English and French Literature as well as her Master of Arts in English Literature at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests are in Canadian literature, diasporic literatures, and Indigenous literatures with a focus on contemporary Latinx Canadian literature. Her dissertation work investigates the ways Latinx CanLit engages with and complicates borders and bordered identities, language, and the pressures and expectations faced by Latinx Canadians to meet or fracture the stereotypes that exist within North America.