Raised in Miami, Roy is a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He is also the recipient of a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative grant and the 2016 Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. His work has received three Pushcart prize nominations, five Best of the Net nominations, a 2015 Gesell Award honorable mention in fiction, and has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, guest-edited by Natalie Diaz. Roy currently lives in Minneapolis, where he is pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society) at the University of Minnesota.