Andrea Gibson began their career in 1999 with a break-up poem at an open mic in Boulder, Colorado. They then leaped into the forefront of spoken word poetry on the national scene in 2008 when they won the first ever Woman of the World Poetry Slam. Gibson is the author of three collections of poetry and currently working on an illustrated collection of their most memorable quotes for Penguin (Winter 2018). They have also released seven full-length albums, the most recent of which is 2017’s HEY GALAXY.
