We Will Be Shelter

Andrea Gibson (born in Calais, Maine) is a poet and performer who became the first person to win the Denver Grand Slam Poetry Championship and has since become one of the most beloved voices in spoken word poetry. Their work addresses LGBTQ identity, disability, love, grief, and social justice with extraordinary emotional force. They are the author of multiple collections including The Madness Vase (Penmanship Books, 2011), Take Me with You (Write Bloody, 2014), and Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry, 2018). They received the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. In 2019, Gibson announced a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and their subsequent work continues to engage illness, death, and resilience with characteristic directness.