Sarah Cleave 
Banthology 
Stories From Banned Nations

In January 2017, President Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – from entering the United States, effectively slamming the door on refugees seeking safety and tearing families apart. Mass protests followed, and although the order has since been blocked, amended and challenged by judges, it still stands as one of the most discriminatory laws to be passed in the US in modern times.



Banthology brings together specially commissioned stories from the original seven ‘banned nations’. Covering a range of approaches – from satire, to allegory, to literary realism – it explores the emotional and personal impact of all restrictions on movement, and offers a platform to voices the White House would rather remained silent.

Circa l’autore

Hope Campbell Gustafson graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012. She is an MFA candidate in the Literary Translation Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her translations have been published or are forthcoming in Exchanges Literary Journal, Asymptote, and The Brooklyn Rail.