I was so happy when I learned that my friend, Azarin Sadegh had won the PEN Center USA 2011 Emerging Voices Fellowship. Azarin has been a hard-working writer, who has spent so much energy developing her writing skills over the past several years, taking classes, mustering incredible discipline, and writing, writing, and writing. She wrote a complete book last year, and she is well into writing her second book now. I find that really impressive!