add myself
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 4f6ee5a..57fc825 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 .. moduleauthor:: Mark Russell <mark.russell@zen.co.uk>
 .. moduleauthor:: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
 .. moduleauthor:: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>
+.. moduleauthor:: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
 .. sectionauthor:: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
 
 The :mod:`io` module provides the Python interfaces to stream handling.  The
diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index 1315708..87fab92 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
               "Mike Verdone <mike.verdone@gmail.com>, "
               "Mark Russell <mark.russell@zen.co.uk>, "
               "Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>, "
-              "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>")
+              "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>, "
+              "Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>")
 
 __all__ = ["BlockingIOError", "open", "IOBase", "RawIOBase", "FileIO",
            "BytesIO", "StringIO", "BufferedIOBase",