The lead author of the book, Azubike Aliche, is a New Jersey State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a former Nigerian journalist and educator who grew up in Nigeria and is versed in Igbo culture. The co-author, Dr. Stella Nwokeji, is professional nurse and lawyer, who also spent her childhood years in Nigeria and wrote from a position of authority on Igbo culture. Both authors are married and have had personal experiences of the impact of American culture on their own marriages and how to navigate that to a blissful relationship.