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Mike Damante is an author, journalist and award-winning educator. He is the author of the 2021 coffee table book “Hey Suburbia: A Guide To The Emo/Pop-Punk Rise.” His latest book, is 2024’s children’s book illustrated by H.E Creative about ska and racial unity, “Hey Ska-Burbia.” In 2023, his book “Above the Fold and the Fringe: How UAPs Became Mainstream News” was published. Damante is the author of the non-fiction trilogy of the paranormal “Punk rock and UFOs” series “Punk rock and UFOs: Stranger Than Fiction," “Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers" and  "Punk Rock and UFOs: Cryptozoology Meets Anarchy." In 2019 he released his first YA fiction novel “Pumpkin Spice and Nothing Nice.” Damante previously worked for the Houston Chronicle as a copy editor, writer, reporter and web producer, and has interviewed bands and musicians like blink-182, the Descendents, Bad Religion, Taking Back Sunday, Tom DeLonge,/ Angels & Airwaves, Donald Glover, Tegan and Sara, Aerosmith, Alkaline Trio, the Get Up Kids, AFI, B.o.B and countless others. He’s covered large events like the X-Games, Warped Tour, Free Press Summerfest, Wizard World Comic Con, San Diego Comic Con, NBA All-Star weekend, and has written for their 29-95, Peep, Guy Stuff, MIKED, and more Hearst blogs. Damante also served as the co-beat writer for the American Hockey League’s Houston Aeros during the 2012-2013 season for chron.com.

He’s interviewed former government officials like Luis Elizondo, Nimitz encounter witnesses Kevin Day and Sean Cahill, New York Times journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, computer scientist Jacques Vallee, authors Whitley Strieber, Diana Pasulka, Peter Levenda, William Shatner, Tom DeLonge, Professor Jeffrey Kripal, military witnesses of UAP events, and many more big names.

He’s appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, FOX 26 Houston, Spectrum News Austin, Coast To Coast AM, Den of Geek, Hi My Name Is Mark, the Mike Herrera podcast, and countless other TV, radio and podcast programs.