diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 5d9f94fe..91ff5a95 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ bug report!
 * `François Boulogne <http://www.sciunto.org/>`_
 * `Adrian Damian <https://death.andgravity.com/>`_
 * `Jason Diamond <http://injektilo.org/>`_
+* `Vincent Gao <https://github.com/gaoflow>`_
 * `Jakub Kuczys <https://github.com/jack1142>`_
 * `Fazal Majid <https://majid.info/blog/>`_
 * `Kevin Marks <http://epeus.blogspot.com/>`_
diff --git a/changelog.d/_6-gaoflow-author-email-redos.rst b/changelog.d/_6-gaoflow-author-email-redos.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fe16936
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/_6-gaoflow-author-email-redos.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+-----
+
+*   Avoid repeated rescans when extracting emails from malformed author values. (#562)
diff --git a/feedparser/mixin.py b/feedparser/mixin.py
index 3acee1b1..d41740a6 100644
--- a/feedparser/mixin.py
+++ b/feedparser/mixin.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 from .util import FeedParserDict
 
 email_pattern = re.compile(
+    r"(?<![a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])"
     r"(([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)"
     r"|(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(]?))"
     r"(\?subject=\S+)?"
diff --git a/tests/test_author_email.py b/tests/test_author_email.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..529dea4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_author_email.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+"""Exercise author email extraction."""
+
+import time
+
+from feedparser.mixin import email_pattern
+
+
+def test_email_pattern_rejects_pathological_domain_quickly():
+    """Reject an email-like author without repeatedly rescanning its domain."""
+    author = "user@" + ("a-b." * 5000) + "!"
+
+    start = time.perf_counter()
+    assert email_pattern.search(author) is None
+    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start
+
+    assert elapsed < 0.1