Eve Joseph is the author of three previous collections of poetry and a memoir. Her most recent book of poetry, Quarrels, won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and The ReLit. Her memoir, In the Slender Margin, won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples.

“Thirst” is excerpted from Dismantling by Eve Joseph. Copyright 2026 © Eve Joseph. Published by Anvil Press. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.

Dismantling published on April 7.