Troy Cabida

is a poet and writer. He was born in 1995, grew up in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila and is currently based in west London.

He is the author of Neon Manila (Nine Arches, 2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. An exploration of the queer Filipino body in all of its skin and glitter, these poems look at pop music, fashion, jewellery, dating mishaps, and everyday urban life to gain a better understanding of the relationships we build with ourselves, of the internal as constantly contoured by the external.

His pamphlets include War Dove (Bad Betty, 2020) and Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems, 2024), the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He also has two spoken word records, Two Poems (Pearl Home Records, 2025) and Neon Manila: The Album (2025).

His work has been featured in The Boy is Beautiful, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, And Other Poems, The Madrigal, Exiled Ink Magazine, Pearl Home Records, & Change, Plastic Language, berlin lit, Paper Boy, StepAway Magazine, and bath magg, anthologised in Wet, Masculinity, Bi+ Lines, State of Play, and 100 Queer Poems, commissioned by Barbican Centre, Tiffany & Co, TAPE Collective, and Small Green Shoots, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry 2022 and 2024.

Performance credits include The RAP Party, ESEA Lit Fest, Verve Poetry Festival, Red Bean Poetry, TOAST Poetry, ArtfulScribe Lit Fest, Newcastle Poetry Festival, Yeah OK!, Venn Diagram, Essere Poetry, Well Versed, Yer Bard, Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, Reference Point, Present Tense, Topping & Company, The Prince Charles Cinema, Tender Books, and Boys Boys Boys.

An alum of the Barbican Young Poets, Troy currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems, Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Selector, and library assistant for the National Poetry Library.