American screenwriter Mikki Daughtry is best familiar to the audience for her work in the well-received romantic drama Five Feet Apart (2019), which she co-wrote with her frequent collaborator Tobias Iaconis. The film, which recounted the story of two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who meet in a hospital and fall in love, was a commercial success.

In the same year, Daughtry co-wrote the supernatural horror thriller The Curse of the Weeping Woman (2019) and The Curse of La Llorona (2019).