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.

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.

Though Andrea desperately wished to have a longer life, they could not have possibly lived a fuller one,' the late poet's loved ones wrote in an announcement.