"Though Andrea desperately wished to have lived a longer life, they could not have possibly lived a fuller one," Gibson's family said.

Gibson was born in Maine and moved to Colorado in the late 1990s, where they had served the past two years as the state’s poet laureate.

Andrea Gibson, Colorado's first nonbinary poet laureate and a powerful voice in spoken word poetry, died on 14 July at 49 after a public battle with ovarian cancer.