Journalist turned novelist releases 'A Girl Like You' Jack Rightmyer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 2of3 3of3 Author Cari Scribner is one of those people who refuse to give up. She has wanted to be a writer since she was in third grade when her teacher at Blue Creek Elementary School, part of the North Colonie School District, told her she wrote the best essays in the class. “That teacher took me aside and said I was going to be a writer,” said Scribner. “I believed her. She was my teacher.” She eventually attended The College of Saint Rose where she majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. “While there I wrote everything, a screenplay, haikus, even advertising copy. The writing classes were very specific, but I found the conciseness of journalism to be my calling.”