In her post-prison life, Knox completed her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of Washington, began writing an arts column for the West Seattle Herald and, in 2013, she penned a memoir about her ordeal titled Waiting to Be Heard, which became a New York Times bestseller.
She also hosted a podcast called The Truth About True Crime, which shed light on cases involving wrongful convictions and media sensationalization, in 2019.
After two years of debate, Knox agreed to participate in a Netflix documentary titled Amanda Knox. The project premiered in October 2016 and was nominated the following year for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
After seeing the documentary for the first time, Knox told PEOPLE she was “incredibly relieved” with the result and thankful for the directors, Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn. It also inspired a new mission in her life: to help prevent wrongful convictions, as she revealed to PEOPLE in 2017.
As part of that mission, Knox returned to Italy in 2019 as the keynote speaker at a criminal justice conference hosted by the Italy Innocence Project. She’s also worked as a journalist and debuted an unscripted series on Facebook Watch called The Scarlet Letter Reports in 2018 to give high-profile women who had been publicly shamed — including Mischa Barton and Amber Rose — a chance to tell their stories.
“It’s humbling to be here in the position I’m in now, where I can help other women reclaim their narrative,” Knox told PEOPLE. “When at a certain point in my life I thought I was going to live the better part of my life in prison labeled something I was not — with no chance at ever reclaiming my life.”
In January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay Knox nearly $21,000 in damages, costs and expenses, The New York Times reported.
The damages were the result of Italian police failing to provide Knox with legal assistance and an interpreter during her 53 hours of questioning following Kercher’s murder. However, the court did not find that Knox had sustained “inhuman or degrading treatment” as she had claimed.
In 2023, Knox returned again to Italy, this time to Perugia, to meet with the prosecutor in her case, Dr. Giuliano Mignini, and found that she was able to forgive him.
“Forgiveness is a natural consequence of realizing how fragile and precious another human is,” she told PEOPLE in March 2025. “I immediately sort of stepped into mom mode, and I was like, ‘I’m not just forgiving you. I’m holding you. I care about you.’ And that changed everything.”
Knox released her second book, Free, in 2025 and will serve as an executive producer on the Hulu limited series Amanda, in which Tell Me Lies actress Grace Van Patten will play her.
Knox began dating author Christopher Robinson in late 2015 after they met at a local book launch party. By 2016, they had moved in together and in December 2018, the couple quietly married — to “simplify our taxes and insurance,” they shared in a later statement.
Despite their initial nuptials being practically motivated (they later celebrated with a space-themed reception in February 2020), Knox and Robinson did not take the decision to wed lightly.
“I don’t want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world … and I very much love Chris and feel like he is my partner,” Knox told PEOPLE in 2017.
Knox and Robinson welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, in 2021 and their son, Echo Knox-Robinson, in September 2023. Knox experienced a miscarriage prior to her the birth of her first child.
The couple have kept their kids out of the public eye, something Knox spoke about after announcing Eureka’s birth on their podcast Labyrinths. “She deserves the privacy and autonomy that I was denied,” the author said.
Speaking to PEOPLE in 2017 about parenting her future children, Knox said, “I hope to instill in them the sense that not knowing what to do and asking for help, especially of us, doesn’t mean that they are less capable or less adult. We’ll help each other, and that will be our strength. That’s what my family taught me.”
In 2025, Knox revealed that her 3-year-old daughter was already “asking questions” about her mother’s time in prison.
“She wants to know the story of when Mommy went to Italy,” Knox told Good Morning America. “I believe in being transparent, I believe in being honest … I always give her very age-appropriate, honest answers.
She continued, “And I’ve told her the story of when mommy went to Italy, how someone hurt her friend and then they hurt mommy by putting her in prison and all of that.”
Knox added that the bigger message she wanted to convey to her kids was one of resilience and inner strength. She said, “I feel like now I can show her what it means to go through the inevitable pains of life but still be in a place of being okay deep down.”
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