Amanda Jetté Knox is an award-winning Canadian writer, author of the bestseller Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family, and a human rights advocate. Amanda is passionate about embracing change, leading with love, and living our most authentic lives.

Amanda shares their family’s story about the power of acceptance, understanding, vulnerability and unconditional love, in the hopes of normalizing the existence of LGBTQ2+ families. Having confronted a series of personal challenges and a major mental health crisis, Amanda also brings to life the necessity of facing mental illness without stigma.

Amanda’s work has been featured by several national and international media outlets, including CBC, The Independent UK, The Globe and Mail, O Magazine, and Chatelaine.

Amanda was humbled to be inducted into the 2021 Order of Ottawa for their advocacy of transgender, gender-creative, and non-binary youth along with their work helping others with mental health issues. They were also a 2019 Chatelaine Woman of the Year and 2020 Top 25 Women of Influence.

Amanda’s new book, One Sunny Afternoon, A Memoir of Trauma and Healing, a deeply personal memoir about addressing trauma head-on, seeking help and staying resilient to find hope in the future, will be available on August 22, 2023, and is available now for pre-order.

They live in Toronto, Canada with their loved ones and a coffee maker that never quits.