diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
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+[metadata]
+description-file=README.md
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
               'hypernetx.drawing',
               'hypernetx.reports'],
     version=__version__,
+    author="Brenda Praggastis, Dustin Arendt, Emily Purvine, Cliff Joslyn",
+    author_email="hypernetx@pnnl.gov",
+    url='https://github.com/pnnl/HyperNetX',
     description='HyperNetX is a Python library for the creation and study of hypergraphs.',
     install_requires=['networkx>=2.2,<3.0','numpy>=1.15.0,<2.0','scipy>=1.1.0,<2.0','matplotlib>3.0','scikit-learn>=0.20.0'],
     license='3-Clause BSD license',