Victoria Kennefick

Victoria Kennefick is an Irish poet from Shanagarry, County Cork, who now lives in Tralee, County Kerry. She holds a doctorate in American literature from University College Cork, with research on Flannery O'Connor and Frank O'Connor, and was a Fulbright scholar at Emory University and Georgia College and State University. She has held residencies with University College Dublin, the Yeats Society in Sligo and Cork County Council. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. A second collection, Egg/Shell, followed from Carcanet in 2024.

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