Kerri Sparling is a writer, speaker, and the author of Six Until Me: Essays from a life with diabetes (2022), Loopy Makes a Sweater (2022), Rage Bolus & Other Poems (2021), and Balancing Diabetes (2014). Since 2005, she has been a leading voice in the patient advocacy space, focusing on her decades of lived experience with type 1 diabetes. Through the power and passion of the patient narrative, she has raised her voice to bolster the influence of patient stories in the healthcare space, from academic journals to keynote performances around the world.
Kerri is best known for her work as a patient storyteller at SixUntilMe.com, an award-winning and globally-read diabetes patient blog. She currently shares Small Stories over at Substack and is seeking representation for her first work of book club fiction, while finishing her second novel, while also building a small rocket ship for cats.
If you’d like to hire Kerri as a speaker for your next event, please email her at kerri (at) kerrisparling (dot) com. You can learn more about the topics she speaks about here.
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