Michael Cala has been writing and photographing professionally for nearly 20 years. For the past 10 years, he has been a writer-producer of Internet content, video, and multimedia for ad agencies, nonprofits, and a major New York City medical center.

He has freelanced for national general interest and music magazines since 1990. He writes book, music, and concert reviews for Blues Revue and SING OUT! magazines and appears on both publications’ mastheads.

Mr. Cala spent an invigorating two-season stint at Lifetime Television, where he was chief writer for a consumer health TV news magazine. He has also written about art photography and photographic technique for Cameras 35, Photo, and Modern Photography, and writes routinely about consumer health. He is a contributor to the Uncle John Bathroom Reader humor book series, with over a dozen contributions to Uncle John Plunges into History (Pocket Press).

In the past, Mr. Cala won representation for his screenplays with the Dick Brand Agency, Paris. He has a horror short, titled “The Black Maria,” listed in the “Short Scripts—Horror” section of the film industry website, www.inktip.com.

He is now writing a regional history-cum-memoir of south Brooklyn, tentatively titled, Must Be Some Way Out of Here. A completed spec, Stay!, is a full-length screenplay—a dark comedy about an R&B label in New York City circa 1961—that an interested director described as a “noir version of American Hot Wax,”

Mr. Cala is currently writing a thriller about the death penalty set in 1940s Florida. He may be contacted at calaster@gmail.com.