Daughtry is from Georgia.[1] She studied theater arts at Brenau University, where she graduated in 2001.[2][3]
She has written three screenplays that have been produced: Five Feet Apart, The Curse Of La Llorona, and Nightbooks, all of which she and her screenwriting partner Tobias Iaconis co-wrote.[2] The first two films were released in 2019, and Nightbooks was released in 2021.[4][5] She and Iaconis had been working together for nearly a decade when Five Feet Apart came out.[1]
A 2018 novelization of Five Feet Apart, written by Rachael Lippincott with Daughtry and Iaconis, was a New York Times bestseller.[2][6][7]
Daughtry subsequently wrote the young adult novel All This Time with Lippincott, published in 2020.[2][6] Her next young adult novel, the century-spanning lesbian romance Time After Time, is forthcoming in 2025.[8][9]
