diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1d04d43..422ec7a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "smol_str"
-version = "0.2.1"
+version = "0.2.2"
 description = "small-string optimized string type with O(1) clone"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/rust-analyzer/smol_str"
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 [dependencies]
 serde = { version = "1.0.136", optional = true, default_features = false }
 arbitrary = { version = "1.1.0", optional = true }
+borsh = { version = "1.4.0", features = ["unstable__schema"] , optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 proptest = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 375a4a5..9087dc2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -804,3 +804,65 @@ mod serde {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(feature = "borsh")]
+mod borsh {
+    use crate::{Repr, SmolStr, INLINE_CAP};
+    use alloc::{
+        collections::BTreeMap,
+        string::{String, ToString},
+    };
+    use borsh::{
+        io::{Error, ErrorKind, Read, Write},
+        schema::{Declaration, Definition},
+        BorshDeserialize, BorshSchema, BorshSerialize,
+    };
+    use core::intrinsics::transmute;
+
+    impl BorshSerialize for SmolStr {
+        fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> borsh::io::Result<()> {
+            self.as_str().serialize(writer)
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl BorshDeserialize for SmolStr {
+        #[inline]
+        fn deserialize_reader<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> borsh::io::Result<Self> {
+            let len = u32::deserialize_reader(reader)?;
+            if (len as usize) < INLINE_CAP {
+                let mut buf = [0u8; INLINE_CAP];
+                reader.read_exact(&mut buf[..len as usize])?;
+                _ = core::str::from_utf8(&buf[..len as usize]).map_err(|err| {
+                    let msg = err.to_string();
+                    Error::new(ErrorKind::InvalidData, msg)
+                })?;
+                Ok(SmolStr(Repr::Inline {
+                    len: unsafe { transmute(len as u8) },
+                    buf,
+                }))
+            } else {
+                // u8::vec_from_reader always returns Some on success in current implementation
+                let vec = u8::vec_from_reader(len, reader)?.ok_or_else(|| {
+                    Error::new(
+                        ErrorKind::Other,
+                        "u8::vec_from_reader unexpectedly returned None".to_string(),
+                    )
+                })?;
+                Ok(SmolStr::from(String::from_utf8(vec).map_err(|err| {
+                    let msg = err.to_string();
+                    Error::new(ErrorKind::InvalidData, msg)
+                })?))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl BorshSchema for SmolStr {
+        fn add_definitions_recursively(definitions: &mut BTreeMap<Declaration, Definition>) {
+            str::add_definitions_recursively(definitions)
+        }
+
+        fn declaration() -> Declaration {
+            str::declaration()
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/test.rs b/tests/test.rs
index 11b7df7..25a4a3b 100644
--- a/tests/test.rs
+++ b/tests/test.rs
@@ -313,3 +313,57 @@ mod test_str_ext {
         assert!(!uppercase.is_heap_allocated());
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(feature = "borsh")]
+mod borsh_tests {
+    use borsh::BorshDeserialize;
+    use smol_str::{SmolStr, ToSmolStr};
+    use std::io::Cursor;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn borsh_serialize_stack() {
+        let smolstr_on_stack = "aßΔCaßδc".to_smolstr();
+        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+        borsh::BorshSerialize::serialize(&smolstr_on_stack, &mut buffer).unwrap();
+        let mut cursor = Cursor::new(buffer);
+        let decoded: SmolStr = borsh::BorshDeserialize::deserialize_reader(&mut cursor).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(smolstr_on_stack, decoded);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn borsh_serialize_heap() {
+        let smolstr_on_heap = "aßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδcaßΔCaßδc".to_smolstr();
+        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+        borsh::BorshSerialize::serialize(&smolstr_on_heap, &mut buffer).unwrap();
+        let mut cursor = Cursor::new(buffer);
+        let decoded: SmolStr = borsh::BorshDeserialize::deserialize_reader(&mut cursor).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(smolstr_on_heap, decoded);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn borsh_non_utf8_stack() {
+        let invalid_utf8: Vec<u8> = vec![0xF0, 0x9F, 0x8F]; // Incomplete UTF-8 sequence
+
+        let wrong_utf8 = SmolStr::from(unsafe { String::from_utf8_unchecked(invalid_utf8) });
+        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+        borsh::BorshSerialize::serialize(&wrong_utf8, &mut buffer).unwrap();
+        let mut cursor = Cursor::new(buffer);
+        let result = SmolStr::deserialize_reader(&mut cursor);
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn borsh_non_utf8_heap() {
+        let invalid_utf8: Vec<u8> = vec![
+            0xC1, 0x8A, 0x5F, 0xE2, 0x3A, 0x9E, 0x3B, 0xAA, 0x01, 0x08, 0x6F, 0x2F, 0xC0, 0x32,
+            0xAB, 0xE1, 0x9A, 0x2F, 0x4A, 0x3F, 0x25, 0x0D, 0x8A, 0x2A, 0x19, 0x11, 0xF0, 0x7F,
+            0x0E, 0x80,
+        ];
+        let wrong_utf8 = SmolStr::from(unsafe { String::from_utf8_unchecked(invalid_utf8) });
+        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+        borsh::BorshSerialize::serialize(&wrong_utf8, &mut buffer).unwrap();
+        let mut cursor = Cursor::new(buffer);
+        let result = SmolStr::deserialize_reader(&mut cursor);
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+    }
+}