Miriella Jiffar
(she/her/hers)
Miriella Jiffar is a fourth year double majoring in English and Cognitive Science, and minoring in French. When she’s not in the Iris office, you can usually find her doing yoga, swimming, spending time with friends, or reading in the cozy window seat at La Maison Française. Fun fact, the thesis she’s currently writing for the English Department’s Distinguished Majors Program was inspired by a piece she wrote for Iris during her second year!
We asked our writers to grapple with the idea of origins and beginnings.
In this issue, called Hauntings, I’ve asked our writers to consider what haunts them and why?
What a fickle force change is! It sweeps you up in its waves, and before you know you’re moving, the sands shift, your feet lightly landing on different shores.
An ode, an homage to these storied Ethiopian highlands, a chess board of the gods as Homer once said, where goats and shepherds have become their chess pieces, shrouded in the gauzy mist of early dawn. A curious goatherd rolls the beans up and down the length of his sun-kissed calloused fingers—a tradition is born.
Ask anyone on the Iris staff, it’s Lindsey’s unique voice that remains with them, the words are always alive, breathing off the page. Lindsey says she has little writing experience, but between you and me, she’s just being modest.
Just over two weeks ago, I sat down (albeit over Zoom) for a conversation with University of Virginia’s Vice President for Finance, and Chief Financial Officer, Augie Maurelli, to talk about all things tuition for Iris Magazine.
I recently started watching the Netflix TV series Shadow and Bone over spring break, adapted from the seven novels that span Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse.
4 p.m. January 21st. An unassuming, relatively normal Saturday afternoon. The day I finally decided to cut off all my hair.
My fluttering feet had splashed up into the air–suspending, if just for a moment–in that beautiful, blissful moment when an overwhelming sea of blue rushed and rippled over my streamlined body as I swam in my neighborhood pool.