Chris Rhyss Edwards

Chris Rhyss Edwards is a former soldier turned digital media professional and writer. After spending a decade in uniform in the Australian Army he has spent the past fifteen years in media. He has studied Entrepreneurship & Innovation through the University of Adelaide, holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology, is a PostGrad Human Rights candidate at Curtin University and is the Program Director for the ad:tech conferences across APAC.

In 2010, Chris undertook a yearlong sabbatical from corporate life to commence a research project designed to answer a REALLY BIG QUESTION: do we ever have a good reason to kill? Over a five year timespan he researched and interviewed people on controversial topics spanning euthanasia, abortion, child soldiers, infanticide, state execution, terrorism and honour killings, before writing Good Reasons to Kill, the first book of its kind that shares the stories of twenty people who have had to confront the biggest moral dilemma possible.