She has been an artist/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin and the Yeats Society.
[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.
[10] Kennefick's father died while she was undertaking her doctoral work.
[9] Kennefick lives in Tralee, County Kerry,[8] She has one child.
[4][12] Her work was quoted on a Leaving Certificate exam paper in 2023.