Victoria Kennefick
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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]
Personal life
Kennefick's father died while she was undertaking her doctoral work.[9] Kennefick lives in Tralee, County Kerry,[8] She has one child.[11]
Recognition and awards
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]
