Victoria Kennefick is an Irish poet. She has been an artist/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin and the Yeats Society. [1] [2] She has been a recipient of bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Kerry County Council. [3] [4] Her collection Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize, [5] [6] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award for Poetry. [7]
Kennefick comes from Shanagarry, County Cork. [8] She studied in University College Cork (UCC) and obtained a Fulbright scholarship, with terms attended in Emory University and Georgia College & State University. [4] She holds a doctorate in American literature from UCC. [4] [9]
She was named Cork County Council writer-in-residence in December 2023. [10]
Kennefick's father died while she was undertaking her doctoral work. [9] Kennefick lives in Tralee, County Kerry, [8] She has one child. [11]
Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize, [5] [6] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2021. [4] [12]
Her work was quoted on a Leaving Certificate exam paper in 2023. [8]
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