diff --git a/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/default.xsl b/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/default.xsl
index 3a11d00..5f989c0 100644
--- a/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/default.xsl
+++ b/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/default.xsl
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ a:hover {
                     </p>
                     <div class="meta">
 
-                        <xsl:if test="author">
-    By <xsl:value-of select="author"/>
+                        <xsl:if test="managingEditor">
+    By <xsl:value-of select="managingEditor"/>
                         </xsl:if>
 
                         <xsl:if test="pubDate">
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ a:hover {
                         </h2>
 
                         <div class="meta">
-                            <xsl:if test="author">
-      Par <xsl:value-of select="author"/>
+                            <xsl:if test="dc:creator">
+      By <xsl:value-of select="dc:creator"/>
                             </xsl:if>
                             <xsl:if test="pubDate">
       —                                <xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
diff --git a/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/rss.xml.jinja2 b/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/rss.xml.jinja2
index 5328672..a81c50b 100644
--- a/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/rss.xml.jinja2
+++ b/mkdocs_rss_plugin/templates/rss.xml.jinja2
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
     {% for item in feed.entries %}
     <item>
       <title>{{ item.title|e }}</title>
-      {# Authors loop #}
+      {# Authors loop - use dc:creator for names (RSS <author> requires email) #}
       {% if item.authors is not none %}
         {% for author in item.authors %}
-      <author>{{ author }}</author>
+      <dc:creator>{{ author|e }}</dc:creator>
         {% endfor %}
       {% endif %}
       {# Categories loop #}
diff --git a/tests/test_build.py b/tests/test_build.py
index 8b18057..2a1d088 100644
--- a/tests/test_build.py
+++ b/tests/test_build.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import unittest
 from pathlib import Path
 from traceback import format_exception
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
 # 3rd party
 import feedparser
@@ -172,6 +173,19 @@ def test_simple_build_complete(self):
                 "Page with complete meta", {e.title for e in feed_parsed.entries}
             )
 
+            # authors: RSS 2.0 requires <author> to be an email address,
+            # so human-readable names must use <dc:creator> instead
+            tree = ElementTree.parse(Path(tmpdirname) / OUTPUT_RSS_FEED_CREATED)
+            dc_namespace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
+            for item in tree.getroot().findall(".//item"):
+                self.assertIsNone(item.find("author"))
+                if item.find("title").text == "Page with complete meta":
+                    creators = item.findall(f"{{{dc_namespace}}}creator")
+                    self.assertEqual(
+                        [c.text for c in creators],
+                        ["Guts", "Tim Vink", "liang2kl"],
+                    )
+
     def test_simple_build_disabled(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
             cli_result = self.build_docs_setup(