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

In 2023-2024, Troy served as the Filipino Community Liaison for 4Culture’s Poetry in Public Program, promoting community-based poetry across King County transit. A member of the National Lawyers Guild, Troy earned his Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law, where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County.

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