Our Mission
Haymaker is the graduate literary journal for Kent State University. We seek to showcase the art and writing of local, national, and international creators while also providing editorial experience to graduate English students at Kent State University.
Editorial Staff
THOMAS MOCARSKI | EDITOR IN CHIEF
Tom is a poet whose work lives within the realms of isolation, atmospheric dissonance, and distant silver linings. He is currently working as a graduate teaching fellow studying literature at Kent State University and has taught first-year Composition and Advanced poetry at the University of Akron. He has worked previously as Editor-in-Chief and Prose Editor for Rubbertop Review. Tom’s research interests deal with the life and works of Thomas Hardy, Victorian Realism, and Queer Theory.
ANNE GARWIG LUCAS | MANAGING EDITOR
Anne is a graduate teaching fellow in literature in the English Department at Kent State University and also teaches poetry workshops and first-year writing at Youngstown State University. Their poetry has been published in Cleaver, Timber, Jenny, and the Mojave River Review, among other venues; and their peer-reviewed scholarship on illustrated memoir in the First World War appeared recently in Assay: a Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Anne’s dissertation research seeks to join recent trends in new formalist thinking to the enduring legacy of the queer in modernism.
SHAYNA SHARPE | NONFICTION EDITOR
After running a national media company for a number of years, Shayna walked away from the corporate world to pursue her true passion of writing. After earning an MFA in Creative Nonfiction through the NEOMFA program, she is currently a doctoral student in the LRSP program.
Shayna teaches at Kent State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She volunteers teaching local poetry workshops, as well as with Master Gardeners of Cuyahoga County and 4H doing youth and community education. She and her husband live near Chagrin Falls with their cats, flock of chickens, and backyard homestead.
MAHAM KHAN | POETRY CO-EDITOR
Maham Khan is a poet and a Fulbright scholar at Kent State University. Her work can be found in The Aleph Review, The Missing Slate, and Jaggery Lit, among other places.
LINDSAY COLLIER | POETRY CO-EDITOR
Lindsay Collier is an occasional poet and an MFA candidate who has grown up in and around Akron Ohio. Lindsay loves finding inspiration in the cyclicality of life and nature focusing on themes of reincarnation, grief and oneness. She loves experimenting with contrapuntal forms. She currently works as a graduate assistant and writing consultant and is an editor or writer of multiple student media magazines at Kent State and The University of Akron.
AUTUMN CEJER | FICTION EDITOR
Autumn is currently a doctoral student at Kent State University where she also teaches introductory composition courses. Previously, she was a fiction and nonfiction reader for Northern Michigan University's literary journal, Passages North, while receiving her master's in literature and writing.
Administrative Staff
MATT BREIT | Administrative Support
MIKE SCHUPSKA | Secretary