[1] In April 2020 The Lifted Brow announced a pause in operations following an investigation by the board into allegations of sexual misconduct and unprofessional conduct by TLB workers.
In 2012 Sam Cooney took as editor until 2014 when he handed over editorial duties to Ellena Savage, Stephanie Van Schilt and Gillian Terzis who edited the publication for a couple of years, before Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko took over in 2016.
[4] Contributors who have appeared in the magazine include Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Helen Garner, Anne Boyer, Douglas Coupland, Roxane Gay, Heidi Julavits, Tom Bissell, Eileen Myles, Margo Lanagan, Tracy K. Smith, Diane Williams, Sam Lipsyte, Sheila Heti, and thousands of others.
For a few years editions of The Lifted Brow included an arts and cultural lift-out called 'Middlebrow', which featured film, book, and television reviews, and articles profiling new video games, theatre, and music.
It featured Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, Daniel Handler, Lisa Brown, Heidi Julavits, Adam Levin, Karen Coin, Rick Moody, Robert Shearman, n a bourke, Glen David Gold, Blake Butler, Michaela McGuire, Liam Pieper, Romy Ash, Luke Ryan, Tao Lin, Benjamin Law, Benjamin Kunkel, Christos Tsiolkas, Tom Cho, Alice Pung, and Elspeth Muir.
The second volume[7] of The Best of The Lifted Brow was published in November 2017 and included contributions from Eileen Myles, Wayne Macauley, Paola Balla, Peter Polites, Margaret Atwood, Margo Lanagan, Darren Hanlon, Upulie Divisekera, Fiona Wright, Safia Elhillo, Ellena Savage, Ryan O'Neill, Briohny Doyle, Chris Somerville, Adam Curley, Rosanna Stevens, Shaun Prescott, Pip Smith, Nic Low, Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Wendy Xu, Matthew Hickey, Sam George-Allen, Zora Sanders, Nic Holas, Regrette Etcetera, Oscar Schwartz, Dion Kagan, Jana Perkovic, Danez Smith, Eugenia Flynn, and Khalid Warsame.
In 2017 the judges were Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leslie Jamison, Fiona Wright and Claudia La Rocco, and the winner was 'An Architecture of Early Motherhood (and Independence)’, by Stephanie Guest and Kate Riggs.
In 2015, The Lifted Brow won the inaugural 'Best Original Non-fiction' prize,[9] judged by Shazna Nessa and Lynn Barber, at the Stack Magazines awards,[10] beating out over 170 other titles.
In April 2020 The Lifted Brow announced a pause in operations following the global COVID-19 pandemic and also an investigation by the board into sexual misconduct and unprofessional conduct by a TLB worker, which found the allegations either untrue or unable to be resolved.