John Winsor is an author and composer. His awards include a bronze medal from ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (2003), iUniverse Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards (2004, 2005), the Modern Music Festival Film Scoring Prize (2000), MTNA/VMTA Commissioned Composer Awards (1992, 1994, 2004, 2012, 2016), Delius Vocal (1992) and Keyboard (1995) Category Awards, grants from the American Music Center and Meet the Composer, JPF Classical Orchestral Album Award (2006), and ASCAP Plus Awards every year since 1994.