About

Michelle Crawford is a Tasmanian writer, stylist, photographer and host whose work explores food, interiors and place.

Based in the Huon Valley, she creates gatherings, editorial stories and visual projects shaped by season, light and place.

Michelle is the custodian of The Bowmont, a former Edwardian bank in the riverside village of Franklin, restored and reimagined as a guest apartment, photography studio and event space, where much of her work unfolds, from editorial shoots to intimate celebrations and visiting creatives. Shaped by that restoration, her eye for interiors also extends to design consulting.

Over the past decade she has styled and photographed for food producers, tourism operators and design-led brands including Blundstone, Bruny Island Cheese, Lark Whisky and Hill Street Grocer. Her writing on food, travel and Tasmanian life has appeared in Country Style, Galah, Graziher, Feast, Inside Out, Lunch Lady and Jetstar Magazine.

Michelle wrote the text for Factory Convent Schoolhouse Home (Artisan, 2026) by Lynda Gardener and Lean Timms. She is also the author of the memoir A Table in the Orchard (Random House, 2015) and has co-authored several books, including Not Just Jam with Matthew Evans (Murdoch Books, 2016), with whom she also worked as researcher and stylist on the Gourmet Farmer television series. She developed the recipes for Better Brain Food: Eat to Cheat Dementia and Cognitive Decline (Murdoch Books, 2017) by dietitian Ngaire Hobbins.

She lives and works at The Bowmont, where many of her stories, photographs and gatherings begin.