diff --git a/dev-python/curio/Manifest b/dev-python/curio/Manifest
index 9d371fdb0c..7f5647a8fc 100644
--- a/dev-python/curio/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/curio/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST curio-0.9.tar.gz 482459 BLAKE2B 7ef65d22806eb10ee3e757dc0d63a202c13036cdb1995962e193332c50dd73585ab27449614de5995f874c03d8623ea27f967101aa99b15166d19a48f4cdaaea SHA512 a6ae4db76358536e6e299ecfa923fd63746cba4bc5374fbfdeb4127032552c960d1e199fdf17d95b039ca2bd000325c637f663007cd6850313bc00bc9a2a3d68
+DIST curio-1.2.tar.gz 228413 BLAKE2B 57dd4849a33ce8075b1f5409397abc727bb10b40d185864747d2e208b5d850286f9dc8784451d1ee8af4f28fcdb8b98d5a159a7563ae93fd30419e8938887ca3 SHA512 8a155f3d0c5512184ed4019edf5f33bfe7597ffdef1a6b19d82b42fe0317b80006d57658d69b422a320f49f9f1b6294faba6c042b7c4258538f001a9792acb8a
diff --git a/dev-python/curio/curio-1.2.ebuild b/dev-python/curio/curio-1.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51ab363738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/curio/curio-1.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Curio is a coroutine-based library for concurrent systems programming"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/dabeaz/curio
+	https://pypi.org/project/curio
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+IUSE="examples"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs --no-autodoc
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# requires internet connection
+	sed -i -e 's:test_ssl_outgoing:_&:' \
+		tests/test_network.py || die
+
+	# AttributeError: module 'asyncio' has no attribute 'run'
+	sed -i -e 's:test_uqueue_asyncio_consumer:_&:' \
+		tests/test_queue.py || die
+	sed -i -e 's:test_uevent_get_asyncio_set:_&:' \
+		-e 's:test_uevent_get_asyncio_wait:_&:' \
+		tests/test_sync.py || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}