Readers and fans of Andrea Gibson’s work offered an outpouring of love, grief and touching tributes Monday about how the poet’s words found them at just the right time.

Author Andrea Gibson, best known for their spoken word poetry and LGBTQ activism, died after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer.

Andrea Gibson was a well-known activist, a spoken-word artist, and the poet laureate of Colorado. How did Gibson die? What was the poet's cause of death? Gibson died on Monday, July 14, 2025, at the age of 49,