A spoken word poet, Andrea Gibson (1975–2025) was born in Calais, Maine. Their books include The Madness Vase (Write Bloody, 2011), Take Me With You (Penguin, 2018), and Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry, 2018). They won the inaugural Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. Appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado in 2023, they received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship in 2024. Gibson died on July 14, 2025.
