Mikki Daughtry is an American screenwriter and

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author. She is best known for writing, along with writing partner Tobias Iaconis, the films ''

The Curse of La Llorona ''The Curse of La Llorona'' (also known as ''The Curse of the Weeping Woman'' in some markets) is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias ...

'' (2019), '' Five Feet Apart'' (2019) and '' Nightbooks'' (2021).

Biography

Daughtry is from

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. She studied theater arts at

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, where she graduated in 2001. She has written three screenplays that have been produced: '' Five Feet Apart,'' ''

The Curse Of La Llorona ''The Curse of La Llorona'' (also known as ''The Curse of the Weeping Woman'' in some markets) is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias ...

'', and '' Nightbooks'', all of which she and her screenwriting partner Tobias Iaconis co-wrote. The first two films were released in 2019, and ''Nightbooks'' was released in 2021. She and Iaconis had been working together for nearly a decade when ''Five Feet Apart'' came out. A 2018

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of ''Five Feet Apart'', written by Rachael Lippincott with Daughtry and Iaconis, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Daughtry subsequently wrote the young adult novel ''All This Time'' with Lippincott, published in 2020. Her next young adult novel, the century-spanning lesbian romance ''Time After Time'', is forthcoming in 2025.

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