diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.1.10
+
+* Added `MonadUnliftIO` instances and `UnliftIO.Resource`
+
 ## 1.1.9
 
 * Add generalized version of resourceForkIO
diff --git a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource.hs b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource.hs
--- a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource.hs
+++ b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource.hs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 release (ReleaseKey istate rk) = liftIO $ release' istate rk
     (maybe (return ()) id)
 
--- | Unprotect resource from cleanup actions, this allowes you to send
+-- | Unprotect resource from cleanup actions; this allows you to send
 -- resource into another resourcet process and reregister it there.
 -- It returns an release action that should be run in order to clean
 -- resource or Nothing in case if resource is already freed.
diff --git a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
--- a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
+++ b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import Control.Applicative (Applicative (..), Alternative(..))
 import Control.Monad (MonadPlus(..))
 import Control.Monad.Fix (MonadFix(..))
+import Control.Monad.IO.Unlift
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Control
     ( MonadTransControl (..), MonadBaseControl (..) )
 import Control.Monad.Base (MonadBase, liftBase)
@@ -288,6 +289,12 @@
              f $ liftM StMT . runInBase . (\(ResourceT r) -> r reader'  )
      restoreM (StMT base) = ResourceT $ const $ restoreM base
 #endif
+
+-- | @since 1.1.10
+instance MonadUnliftIO m => MonadUnliftIO (ResourceT m) where
+  askUnliftIO = ResourceT $ \r ->
+                withUnliftIO $ \u ->
+                return (UnliftIO (unliftIO u . flip unResourceT r))
 
 #define GO(T) instance (MonadResource m) => MonadResource (T m) where liftResourceT = lift . liftResourceT
 #define GOX(X, T) instance (X, MonadResource m) => MonadResource (T m) where liftResourceT = lift . liftResourceT
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     "This could take a long time, don't delay releasing the resource!"
 ```
 
-Try entering a valid value, such as 3, and then enter 0. Notice that in both cases the "Freeing scarce resource" message it printed. And by using `release` before `somethingElse`, we guarantee that the resource is freed *before* running the potentially long process.
+Try entering a valid value, such as 3, and then enter 0. Notice that in both cases the "Freeing scarce resource" message is printed. And by using `release` before `somethingElse`, we guarantee that the resource is freed *before* running the potentially long process.
 
 In this specific case, we could easily represent our code in terms of bracket with a little refactoring.
 
diff --git a/UnliftIO/Resource.hs b/UnliftIO/Resource.hs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/UnliftIO/Resource.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+-- | Unlifted "Control.Monad.Trans.Resource".
+--
+-- @since 1.1.10
+module UnliftIO.Resource
+  ( -- * UnliftIO variants
+    runResourceT
+  , liftResourceT
+    -- * Reexports
+  , module Control.Monad.Trans.Resource
+  ) where
+
+import qualified Control.Monad.Trans.Resource as Res
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Resource.Internal (ResourceT (..))
+import Control.Monad.IO.Unlift
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Resource (ResourceT, ReleaseKey, allocate, register, release, unprotect, MonadResource)
+
+-- | Unlifted version of 'Res.runResourceT'.
+--
+-- @since 1.1.10
+runResourceT :: MonadUnliftIO m => ResourceT m a -> m a
+runResourceT m = withRunInIO $ \run -> Res.runResourceT $ Res.transResourceT run m
+
+-- | Lifted version of 'Res.liftResourceT'.
+--
+-- @since 1.1.10
+liftResourceT :: MonadIO m => ResourceT IO a -> ResourceT m a
+liftResourceT (ResourceT f) = ResourceT $ liftIO . f
diff --git a/resourcet.cabal b/resourcet.cabal
--- a/resourcet.cabal
+++ b/resourcet.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                resourcet
-Version:             1.1.9
+Version:             1.1.10
 Synopsis:            Deterministic allocation and freeing of scarce resources.
 description:         Hackage documentation generation is not reliable. For up to date documentation, please see: <http://www.stackage.org/package/resourcet>.
 License:             BSD3
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
                        Control.Monad.Trans.Resource.Internal
                        Data.Acquire
                        Data.Acquire.Internal
+                       UnliftIO.Resource
   Build-depends:       base                     >= 4.5          && < 5
                      , lifted-base              >= 0.1
                      , transformers-base        >= 0.4.4        && < 0.5
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
                      , mtl                      >= 2.0          && < 2.3
                      , mmorph
                      , exceptions               >= 0.5
+                     , unliftio-core
   ghc-options:     -Wall
 
 test-suite test