Victoria Kennefick

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Victoria Kennefick is an Irish poet. She has served as artist/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin, and the Yeats Society, and has received bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Kerry County Council. Her poetry collection Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize (2021) and the Costa Book Award for Poetry. She comes from Shanagarry, County Cork, and studied at University College Cork (UCC), where she earned a Fulbright scholarship and spent time at Emory University and Georgia College & State University. She holds a doctorate in American literature from UCC. In December 2023 she was named Cork County Council writer-in-residence. Her father died while she was completing her doctorate. She lives in Tralee, County Kerry, and has one child. Her work was quoted on a Leaving Certificate exam paper in 2023.