Chris Kohler

Chris Kohler is a Scottish author from Glasgow. He is the author of the novel Phantom Limb. In 2025, the book won the Saltire Society Literary Award for Fiction Debut of the Year.

His short stories have appeared in literary magazines including 3:AM Magazine, Egress, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Gutter, Dark Mountain, and Minor Literatures. He was longlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize in 2022.

Career Phantom Limb is a novel set in Scotland that incorporates elements of satire and the supernatural, drawing on historical material from the Scottish Reformation.

Reception

The Guardian described it as "an unusual debut". The Scotsman referred to a "promisingly eldritch imagination". The Spectator Australia reviewed the novel in August 2024 under the title "A miracle beckons". The Daily Telegraph described it as a novel about "miraculous happenings in a faithless world".