Amanda Knox built a new life for herself in the United States after clearing her name of murder — and part of that new chapter included falling in love with her now-husband, Christopher Robinson.
Knox met Robinson, a Seattle-based writer, in 2015, and they struck up a romance soon after.
While Knox, 38, may be best known for her yearslong battle with the Italian justice system following a wrongful murder conviction, Robinson says his wife also has a “playfulness” that the public doesn’t necessarily see.
“She puts her foot down and stands up for what she believes is just,” he told People in 2017. “But just because she’s that person doesn’t mean that we also don’t swing dance in the kitchen while we’re making dinner. We have a lot of fun together, and we let that whimsy carry us.”
Knox and Robinson have been married since 2020 and share two children. They are also creative partners, having collaborated on multiple podcasts and a book of poetry.
Robinson’s character features in an upcoming Hulu drama, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.” The eight-episode limited series, premiering Aug. 20, explores Knox’s wrongful imprisonment in Italy and ultimate exoneration.
Keep reading to learn more about Knox’s husband of five years, Christopher Robinson.
He is a poet and novelist
Robinson has co-written two novels with his best friend, Gavin Kovite: 2018’s “Deliver Us” and 2020’s “War of the Encyclopaedists.”
The New York Times called “War of the Encyclopaedists” a “captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac.”
In 2020, Robinson and Knox collaborated on a book of poetry, “The Cardio Tesseract,” in which the couple write alternating love poems to each other, “revealing the dynamics of their private life, their hopes, fears, and dark places, from thoughts of suicide and memories of prison, to dreams of raising children,” according to the book’s description.
Robinson is also a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist and has been awarded multiple prestigious writing fellowships.
Robinson says he ‘didn’t really know’ Knox’s story when they met
Knox and Robinson first entered each other’s orbits when Knox penned a review for the West Seattle Herald of his novel, “War of the Encyclopaedists.”
When he and Knox later met at a book launch party in 2015, Robinson said he only had a vague awareness of what she had experienced.
“I was probably the only person at the party who didn’t really know who she was,” Robinson told People in 2017. “I knew (about) Italy and some legal stuff and something that shouldn’t have happened. But I didn’t really know her story.”
Knox recalled feeling a connection to Robinson from the start.
“When we shook hands goodbye, he said, ‘I think you’re someone I should be friends with,’” she recalled to People.
In a subsequent 2015 interview with Robinson and his co-author for the West Seattle Herald, Knox called her future husband’s book “a thoughtful, touching, fun novel about two millennials coming of age via love triangles, grad school, and the Iraq war.”
He proposed to Knox with a meteorite
Robinson popped the question via an elaborate sci-fi-themed proposal. In a 2018 Youtube video of the proposal, Robinson leads Knox into the backyard, where she finds a tablet with glowing words outlining the details of their relationship.
The soundtrack from “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial” plays in the background as Robinson shows Knox the “meteor” that made a hole in their yard.
“I don’t have a ring but I do have a big rock,” Robinson says in the video. “Will you stay with me until the last star in the last galaxy burns out and even after that? Amanda Marie Knox, will you marry me?”
The couple exchanged vows in a space-themed wedding on Leap Day, Feb. 29, 2020.
Knox later explained her decision not to immediately post photos from their special day on social media.
“Dear Friends, We are so looking forward to sharing wedding photos with you,” she wrote on Instagram on March 11, 2020.
“Thank you for your patience as we determine the best way to do so without giving the tabloids free ad revenue — because they will steal those photos from Instagram and republish them with their own frame narrative for their own profit,” she continued.
He and Knox share two children
Robinson and Knox share a son and a daughter. In October 2021, Knox revealed in an interview with The New York Times that they had welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, months earlier.
She said she and Robinson kept the news of Eureka’s birth private initially because they were worried about the “paparazzi bounty on her head.”
They also welcomed a son, Echo, in September 2023, Knox and Robinson revealed on their parenting podcast, “Younglings,” which they co-host with Kylie Pentelow and Brady Haran.
While Robinson and Knox share photos of their children on social media, they keep their faces obscured.
In March 2022, Robinson took to Instagram to share a poem called “Eureka” he had written about his daughter.
“Her middle name is Muse for a reason,” he wrote in the caption.
In the poem, he calls his daughter “perfect” and “deserving of nothing at all but love.”
Knox shared on Instagram in 2021 that she had experienced a miscarriage early in her first pregnancy.
Knox says Robinson ‘balanced the scales’ of her life
Knox shared a heartfelt message about her husband on Instagram on Feb. 29, 2024. She marked what was technically their first actual wedding anniversary, because they had tied the knot on Leap Day four years previously.
“(Chris) and I got married on this day outside the normal flow of time four years ago,” she wrote in the caption.
“Chris and I have been married now for as long as I was imprisoned, and together for as long as I was on trial,” she continued. “He has balanced the scales of my life away from injustice and pain and towards love and hope. Choosing him as my person was the best decision I’ve ever made. Happy anniversary, boo!”
Robinson has shown his support for his wife throughout her recent encounters with Italy’s justice system. He was seen at his wife’s side in Italy in June 2024, when an Italian court reconvicted her of slander.
The couple held hands as they arrived at a courthouse in Florence.
Robinson has also defended Knox in the past on social media. He blasted a tabloid journalist for giving a platform to the man convicted of Kercher’s murder, Rudy Guede, after Guede’s release from prison in 2021.
“This is cruel to Amanda as well as the Kercher family,” Robinson wrote on X. “All for a few clicks. Shame.”
