diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index e787646..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit
-README.txt
-setup.cfg
-setup.py
-tinynumpy/__init__.py
-tinynumpy/benchmark.py
-tinynumpy/test_tinyndarray.py
-tinynumpy/test_tinynumpy.py
-tinynumpy/tinylinalg.py
-tinynumpy/tinynumpy.py
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f29bbd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+[build-system]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = [
+    "setuptools >= 61.0",
+]
+
+[project]
+name = "tinynumpy"
+version = "1.2.0"
+
+authors = [
+    { name = "Wade Brainerd", email = "wadetb@gmail.com" },
+    { name = "Almar Klein" },
+]
+classifiers = []
+description = "A lightweight, pure Python, numpy compliant ndarray class"
+keywords = ["Science", "Research", "Engineering", "Software Development"]
+license = { text = "MIT" }
+readme = "README.md"
+
+[project.urls]
+Repository = "https://github.com/wadetb/tinynumpy"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+include-package-data = false
+packages = { find = { namespaces = false, include = ["tinynumpy*"] } }
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index b88034e..0000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[metadata]
-description-file = README.md
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75c9d5a..4cdc655 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,13 +1,4 @@
-from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup
+
 setup(
-    name='tinynumpy',
-    packages=['tinynumpy'],  # this must be the same as the name above
-    version='1.2.0',
-    description='A lightweight, pure Python, numpy compliant ndarray class',
-    author='Wade Brainerd, Almar Klein',
-    author_email='wadetb@gmail.com',
-    url='https://github.com/wadetb/tinynumpy',  # use the URL to the github repo
-    # download_url = 'https://github.com/peterldowns/mypackage/tarball/0.1',
-    keywords=['Science', 'Research', 'Engineering', 'Software Development'],
-    classifiers=[],
     )