Michael Serra (b. 1986) is a photographer from Northeast Pennsylvania. He studied at Rochester Institute of Technology and Tyler School of Art at Temple University. His work deals with the intersections between social history, history of documentary, place, and cultural identity. His work, Description Without Place: Searching for Centralia (2009-2019), is a meditation on the problem of representing the former borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a small former anthracite mining town in the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania, under which a mine fire has been burning, unabated, since 1962.