Troy Ford is an author and editor, and the publisher of two popular newsletters: the writing-focused Ford Knows Books, and Qstack, an LGBTQIA+ Community, Directory, and Platform of newsletter writers and readers. As a creator and advocate, his mission is to give voice to queer people and issues by promoting their visibility through media projects and collaborations, including as an Associate Producer for the This Queer Book Saved My Life podcast.
His essays, articles and fiction have appeared in The Queer Love Project, Writers Digest, Publishers Weekly’s BookLife, and Bewildering Stories, and in two anthologies – Crossing Paths: Queer Moments That Changed Everything, and Steps to Liberation: The Rainbow Flag, Human Rights and Freedom. He has published two novels, Lamb and Waterspout, in the Pink Sheep series.
Troy’s writing explores the joy and pain of queerness through the lens of gay men who struggle in a world that views their lives as other and less than. His themes include love and sex, friendship and family, growing up and bullying, substance abuse and self-destructiveness – all with a touch of humor to lighten otherwise difficult topics.
A native Californian, he grew up overseas in the Middle East and eventually settled in the San Francisco/Bay Area where he earned a B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. Since 2019, he has lived in Sitges, Spain with his husband and AmStaff Terrier.
