Troy Morash was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and grew up on Prince Edward Island, in the east of Canada. After graduating he left for Toronto and lived there for four and half years. In 1990 he was the co-founder of Ordure, a magazine that failed due to poor business planning which later turned into another called FAX that was shut down after only one issue due to obscenities, although by that time he wasn't much involved. At the time he was working on several novels and finished one. In 1992 he began to take an interest in fairy tales, writing his first Stew Pit Men in the summer of 1992. At about the same time he turned his energy to esoteric studies and after destroying all his work except the fairy tales moved to California in 1994, working in a winery and studying theater and art for a year and a half.

In 1996 he began to travel in Europe living in Bucharest for six months translating Romanian folklore with Christina Mambet. In August 1997 he moved to Odessa, Ukraine where he currently resides, teaching English. There in Odessa he has written the greatest bulk of his fairy tale collection which now totals more than 150 tales.

He began publishing in journals and literary magazines in late 2001 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

He is preparing a translation of Chechen fairy tales as well as fairy tales from the former Soviet Union.