diff --git a/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py b/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
index 72348bc2..b2241b61 100644
--- a/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
+++ b/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 import collections.abc
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-import io
 import os
 from pathlib import (  # type: ignore
     Path,
@@ -637,8 +636,6 @@ def write_text(
         if not isinstance(data, str):
             raise TypeError("data must be str, not %s" % data.__class__.__name__)
 
-        encoding = io.text_encoding(encoding)
-
         with self.open(mode="w", encoding=encoding, errors=errors, newline=newline) as f:
             return f.write(data)