John Aberdein is a Scottish writer. His early stories were edited by Duncan McLean in Ahead of its Time (1997). He worked as a fisherman, teacher and political campaigner in North-East Scotland, London, Fife, Hampshire, the West Coast and Orkney. Amande's Bed won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award 2005, and the story Moving was a prize-winner in the Scotsman and Orange Short Story awards 2004.