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With its first release in September 2005, Autumn Hill Books is a relative newcomer to the publishing world. But its close ties with the writing programs at the University of Iowa (the International Writing Program, the Writers' Workshop, the MFA programs in non-fiction, translation, and playwriting) give it a wealth of tradition and experience to draw upon.

Autumn Hill Books is an Iowa non-profit corporation whose emphasis is on making fine translations of primarily contemporary literature from around the world more widely available in English. Its first book, A Castle in Romagna, by Bosnian-born author Igor Štiks, was published in September 2005. This work was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and selected by Rebecca's Reads as its "Best of Literature" title for 2005. Foreign Words, by Greco-French author Vassilis Alexakis, was published in April 2006. This book's translation by Alyson Waters was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, while its subsequent publication and distribution in English was facilitated by the Greek and French governments. It received a Silver medal in Foreword Magazine's 2006 Book of the Year Awards and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize in 2007. The Silence of the Sufi, by Uzbek author Sabit Madaliev was released in December 2006. The author of some fourteen books of Sufi verse, Madaliev was an asylum writer at the University of Iowa in 2004-05.

Anima Mundi, by the internationally best-selling Italian author Susanna Tamaro, was released in Fall 2007, with the help of generous support from the Italian Ministry of Culture, along with two works by contemporary Croatian authors, Zoran Feric's Balkan crime novel The Death of the Little Match Girl, translated by Tomislav Kuzmanovic, and Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, by Slobodan Novak, in a revised translation by Celia Hawkesworth.

Forthcoming titles include Laundry, by Israeli author Suzane Adam, translated by Becka Mara McKay, and Christian Bobin's A Little Party Dress, translated by Alison Anderson.

Autumn Hill Books has received support from the Iowa Arts Council, the Croatian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Embassy of Greece, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.