Michael Dustin Youree is an American artist or iginally from Dallas, Texas. Following graduation from the University of Colorado in Boulder, he moved to New York City where he worked in film and music production, taught private music students, and maintained an extensive schedule of performance and philanthropy. While traveling and touring extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and Asia, he produced a significant portfolio of travel films, short stories, photography, and songs. Ballads and Bedtime Stories is his first book. You can find his other volumes of work, get to know him, and contact him at www.mdy.world.