diff --git a/dev-python/curio/Manifest b/dev-python/curio/Manifest
index 22a96141fd..3cd73a65ae 100644
--- a/dev-python/curio/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/curio/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST curio-0.9.tar.gz 482459 BLAKE2B 7ef65d22806eb10ee3e757dc0d63a202c13036cdb1995962e193332c50dd73585ab27449614de5995f874c03d8623ea27f967101aa99b15166d19a48f4cdaaea SHA512 a6ae4db76358536e6e299ecfa923fd63746cba4bc5374fbfdeb4127032552c960d1e199fdf17d95b039ca2bd000325c637f663007cd6850313bc00bc9a2a3d68
 DIST curio-1.2.tar.gz 228413 BLAKE2B 57dd4849a33ce8075b1f5409397abc727bb10b40d185864747d2e208b5d850286f9dc8784451d1ee8af4f28fcdb8b98d5a159a7563ae93fd30419e8938887ca3 SHA512 8a155f3d0c5512184ed4019edf5f33bfe7597ffdef1a6b19d82b42fe0317b80006d57658d69b422a320f49f9f1b6294faba6c042b7c4258538f001a9792acb8a
 DIST curio-1.4.tar.gz 230144 BLAKE2B befe36251e6e9ef39cc220d383d9195e7ed4126aafe64403598b857551fe54ef6fff293e9ddb802dc155c9c6264d9f7b86e7393786b7bd1da4ca8882716a5d77 SHA512 105fe0d3edea0310b98bb93e74ca750516d9f33e4f8c3866be3e92a582485baf885fd58b007fb33c3e24b4a8e73b532f20899ed106c4a6ac23f97b444c4b3ffc
+DIST curio-1.5.tar.gz 234920 BLAKE2B 26e3c0de872d77478f433990f88f9ac35f9615621aadfcc7b8d766488ffe390fd4698854640792bda4e649fc0d1224fa7cb5bf89777268fee4349500a5365547 SHA512 8c78d866b949da862ddb29d6a8db6881d00dedb33637529d02d4e3010de0e1ecd15e74f52c011828738ac7d54e5f04425c8ffb43abaf1e77c21d28d874ff711b
diff --git a/dev-python/curio/curio-1.5.ebuild b/dev-python/curio/curio-1.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..47c09e071f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/curio/curio-1.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=bdepend
+
+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:_&:' \
+		-e 's:test_universal_error:_&:' \
+		-e 's:test_universal_value:_&:' \
+		tests/test_sync.py || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}