The journal, originally the Apalachee Quarterly, was founded in 1971 by David Morrill, Sandy Shartzer, Kim Rogers and Bill Hampton, former editors of the Florida State University student newspaper, The Florida Flambeau, and the campus literary magazine, The Legend.

[1] Notable contributors include Marlin Barton, Jacob Appel, Joe Clark, Christine Hale, Kristine Somerville, Tommy Zurhellen, Joanna Leake, Fran Kaplan, Jesse Murphree, Phillip Gardner, Pamela Garvey, PV LeForge, Len Schweitzer, David Kirby, Annie Dillard, Thomas Morrill and Ginnah Howard.

Its editor is Michael Trammell, a poet and research associate at Florida State University.

Its fiction editor is Mary Jane Ryals, the 2008 Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida, author of "Cookie & Me" (Kitsune Books) and a research associate at FSU.

Its nonfiction editor is Kathleen Laufenberg, journalist and science writer at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.