About Andrea Gibson
Andrea Faye Gibson (born in Calais (Maine) in 13 August 1975 — died in Longmont (Colorado) in 14 July 2025) was an American non-binary poet and activist, named Poet Laureate of Colorado in 2023. Her poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social justice, LGBT issues, life, and death. He graduated with a degree in English literature in 1997 and moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1999. In 2003, he left his job at a Montessori school to pursue spoken-word poetry. Gibson performed regularly in a feminist group, Vox Feminista. In 2019, Ani DiFranco co-produced a video of the poem “America, Reloading” about gun violence in the United States.Andrea Gibson identified as non-binary and used the pronouns “they/them/theirs.” After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, Gibson and his wife Megan Falley were the subject of a 2025 documentary, “Come See Me in the Good Light,” which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Festival Favorite Award.
Andrea Gibson dies in Longmont of cancer on July 14, 2025 at the age of 49.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.
