Chris Kohler is a Scottish author from Glasgow. He is the author of the novel Phantom Limb (2024). 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 ', Egress, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Gutter, Dark Mountain, and Minor Literatures. He was shortlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize in 2023.
Phantom Limb is a novel set in Scotland that incorporates elements of satire and the supernatural, drawing on historical material from the Scottish Reformation.
Phantom Limb received coverage in several publications.