Meet the Author

Tom Te’ Zins, author of Under the Red Willow was born in the inner city of Cleveland, and he still cultivates distinctive Ohio remembrances with Trains of All Sorts going through the neighborhood on the East or West Side. To this day, poetic justice doesn’t know which of which side his home-base laid upon, Western or Eastern city turf because what mattered mostly to him was being in the middle of something extraordinarily special –at a very early age.

Daily the boy lived amongst a whimsical creation overlooking massive railways in the middle of overhearing zooming wind-wheels, screeching sound-travels, and let not the viewer forget whistling whistle-blowers with a whole other wakeup call. These imaginative movements moved along simultaneously throughout his dreams of storytellers scurrying by City-scape amazements –much like children in costumes sharing candy on Halloween.

Tommy Boy, his youthful namesake in an original world most likely rocket launched a good swift liftoff into living the Arts in general just as the creative Te’ Zins now knows those urban days formed the beginning artistries of his life’s work. He, being the athlete, artist, teacher, and present author adventures jovially into Dreamwalking alongside his literary character entering the World of Dreamatics.

Nonetheless, the author seems the happiest in and around artistic transitions throughout his lifetime. Art creatively redirects Tom Te’ into slight smiles moving onward and onto new artful tracks rerouting the current dem-o-crazy America. Somehow a little backbone of integral unity
is needed to restore today’s American dream while jonesing off the addiction to money might reshape the country into reviving more heart-rooted governing legislatures.

In short, the discovery with finding home in the high deserts of New Mexico, the author’s passionate resilience has broadened a wider scope within the arts. A decent quality for community awareness to challenge him toward becoming a better person and artist while Love, Guts, and Study sure have rendered plenty of spatial and creative thoughts from writing Under the Red Willow, an artistic novel about the creative process within everyday life.