"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.

The news of Andrea Gibson’s demise has sparked an outpouring of grief across the literary and LGBTQ+ communities. Known for their fearless spoken word performances and activism, Gibson passed away at the age of 49.