Michael Serra (b. 1986) is a photographer from North Central Pennsylvania. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology. 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. Residing in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania since 2012, his work The Road to 69th Street Station (2023-present), is a meditation on residents of Upper Darby, PA, encountered between his home and 69th Street Transportation Center, three miles from his home.