is there any way to display the user_derscription in authors-list-item.php

I tried this but it doesn’t display
<?php $user_description = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘user_description’, true ); ?>
<?php if( ! empty( $user_description ) ): ?>
<span style=”text-align: center;” class=”last”><?php echo esc_html( $user_description ) ?></span>
<?php else: ?>
<span class=””>—</span>
<?php endif; ?>

Any ideas?