Nicholas R. Cabezas is a Ph.D. student of English and writing coach for the First-Year Writing Intensive Seminar (FWIS) 100 Program at Rice University. He entwines exile studies, ecocriticism, and aesthetics to read twenty-first-century literature and video games. His work will appear in Philosophy and Literature (April 2026), A Profound Waste of Time (November 2025), and Variaciones Borges (October 2025). When he’s not studying, he can be found writing fiction by morning and swimming by evening.