A three-time grand slam poetry champion, Troy has received fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and the Jack Straw Cultural Center, and was awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. His work appears in Poetry, The Missouri Review, The Offing, and is anthologized in The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books, 2025).

From 2023 to 2024, Troy served as the Filipino Community Liaison for 4Culture’s Poetry in Public program, promoting community-based poetry throughout King County. A member of the National Lawyers Guild, he earned his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law, where he interned with Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to youth incarceration.

Troy lives in Seattle, where his great-grandfather served as a Buddhist minister at the Seattle Buddhist Temple during World War II.