After graduation, Caldwell moved to
Chicago,
Illinois to work as a producer/writer. Whilst in Chicago, she became involved with an inner city tutoring program, resulting in the production of her first documentary, 'Cabrini Green... what you don't see' which aired on the Chicago
PBS station. Caldwell moved to
Washington, D.C. in 1989 to work for
WORLDNET Television and Film Service, a division of
United States Information Agency. Here, she was a writer/producer for live interactive broadcasts to
Africa,
East Asia, and the
Middle East. She then worked at Motion Masters in
Charleston,
West Virginia for six months before returning to Chicago in 1991 to form Amphion Productions. She then worked as a freelance writer/producer on hundreds of projects and was a 1997 competition winner for the Chicago/Illinois Screenplay Contest. She moved her company to
Los Angeles in 1998 and has since written three books on screenwriting/film production topics. She is also a professor of film/screenwriting courses at
College of the Canyons in
Santa Clarita,
California and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing (FIDM) in Los Angeles. In 2018, she penned her first young adult novel,
Raven Dock, to be published by White Bird Publications. The novel is part of a series known as Dark Coven. She co-founded House of Gorey Productions with her husband, Walter Gorey, in 2010, through which she has directed and produced short films and animations. ==Personal life==