Meet Kelly...
Miguel wear a tan and white plaid shirt and grey jeans is next to Kelly wearing a blue sweater and blue jeans, who is holding Strawbaby in a pink sweater and leggings. Jackson is in front of them wearing a maroon shirt, white sweatpants and a beanie while holding a framed photo of Adelaide in a blue dress. They are standing in an open field, smiling with blue sky above them.
An unexpected journey...
Kelly in a. long sleeved pink shirt against a grey backdrop gently smiling. Photo taken by Justin Patterson.
KELLY CERVANTES is an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate best known for her blog Inchstones, where she shared the stress, love, and joy that came with parenting her medically complex daughter, Adelaide. Since Adelaide’s passing, just five days shy of her fourth birthday in October of 2019, Kelly has continued to write candidly about her arduous and, at times, contradictory grief journey.
Her debut book, Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When it’s Time to Heal But You’re Not Sure You Want to is a USA Today Bestseller and her memoir The Luckiest: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Self will be out November 4th, 2025. She has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Cosmopolitan, as well as quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and People. She sits on the boards of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation and CURE Epilepsy in addition to hosting CURE’s monthly podcast, Seizing Life, where she interviews scientists, doctors, and individuals affected by epilepsy.
Kelly resides in Maplewood, NJ, with her husband, Broadway star Miguel Cervantes, their children, and two dogs, Tabasco and Sriracha.