Bruce Stovel (1941–2007) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta. He co-edited two collections of essays on Austen and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Stovel's passion for teaching, literature, and blues music was celebrated in Jane Austen Sings the Blues.
Nora Foster Stovel is a Professor Emerita in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence. University of Alberta Press published her critical editions of Margaret Laurence’s Heart of a Stranger and Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists and three edited collections: Jane Austen Sings the Blues, Jane Austen & Company, and The Creation of iGiselle: Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games. She lives in Edmonton.