"Though Andrea desperately wished to have lived a longer life, they could not have possibly lived a fuller one," Gibson's family said.

Gibson was born in Maine and moved to Colorado in the late 1990s, where they had served the past two years as the state’s poet laureate.

Andrea Gibson, the American poet and spoken word artist, died on Sunday, 14 July 2025. They were 49. According to reports, their death occurred in the wee hours at home, surrounded by their wife Megan Falley,