Michael Serra (b. 1986) is a photographer from North Central Pennsylvania. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His work explores the intersections between social history, metafiction, documentary-style, 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 and people in transit in Upper Darby, PA, encountered between his home and 69th Street Transportation Center, three miles from his home.