Christine Hà
| Christine Hà | |
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Christine Huyentran Hà 9 May 1979 Los Angeles County, California, United States |
| Spouse(s) | John Suh |
| Website | www.christineha.com |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Vietnamese, Asian fusion, Southeast Asian, Southern, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese |
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Christine Huyentran Hà (何弦珍; born May 9, 1979) is an American chef, writer, and TV host. She is the first blind contestant of MasterChef and the winner of its third season in 2012.
Hà was born in Los Angeles County, California, an only child. Her parents were of Vietnamese origin. She lived in Lakewood, California and Long Beach, California as a young child before her family moved to Houston, Texas. Her mother died from lung cancer when Hà was 14. Her paternal aunt also died from the same illness, even though both were non-smokers.
Hà suffers from neuromyelitis optica, in which a person's own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord. In 2004, she was diagnosed and gradually started losing her vision, and was almost completely blind by 2007. She describes her vision as "looking at a very foggy mirror after a hot shower". She uses adaptive technologies to help her manage her social media profiles by herself.
Hà received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and MIS from University of Texas at Austin in 2001, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Fiction and Nonfiction at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program in 2012. She received the editor's poetry prize from The ScissorTale Review and was a finalist in the 2010 Creative Nonfiction MFA Program-Off contest.
Hà serves as Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast Journal and her work has appeared in Fire Point, The ScissorTale Review, and PANK Magazine, among others. In January 2014 she began hosting the cooking show Four Senses on AMI-TV.
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