Andrea Gibson

Andrea Gibson (born August 13, 1975) is an award-winning American poet and activist from Calais, Maine, who has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Gibson's poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform and the struggles LGBTQ people face in today's society. 2Personal life Gibson grew up in Calais, Maine. A child of Mark and Shirley Gibson, Gibson has one sister, Laura, who is mentioned in a poem "Titanic." Growing up in a Baptist home and attending local schools, Gibson later attended Saint Joseph's College of Maine. Moving with a girlfriend, Gibson lived for a time in New Orleans, and later the two moved in 1999 to Boulder, Colorado, where they settled. They went to their first open-mic in Denver, where Gibson was inspired to become a spoken word artist. Gibson also goes by Andrew and uses gender-neutral pronouns. Many poems are about gender identity, such as "Swing set" and "Andrew". Gibson has said, regarding gender, "I don't necessarily identify within a gender binary. I've never in my life really felt like a woman and I've certainly never felt like a ma