diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 4e5e75e..99e13f2 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -4,22 +4,15 @@ import {lineIterator, combineAsyncIterables} from './utilities.js';
 export default function nanoSpawn(command, arguments_ = [], {signal, timeout, nativeOptions} = {}) {
 	const subprocess = spawn(command, arguments_, {...nativeOptions, signal, timeout});
 
-	// eslint-disable-next-line no-async-promise-executor
-	const promise = new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
-		try {
-			subprocess.on('close', exitCode => {
-				// TODO: Pass in `stdin` and `stdout` strings here.
-				resolve({
-					exitCode,
-				});
-			});
+	const promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+		subprocess.on('close', (exitCode, signalName) => {
+			// TODO: Pass in `stdin` and `stdout` strings here.
+			resolve({exitCode, signalName});
+		});
 
-			subprocess.on('error', error => {
-				reject(error);
-			});
-		} catch (error) {
+		subprocess.on('error', error => {
 			reject(error);
-		}
+		});
 	});
 
 	const stdoutLines = lineIterator(subprocess.stdout);
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 2b4235f..82c46d6 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ test('can be awaited', async t => {
 	// TODO
 	// t.is(result.stdout, '🦄');
 	t.is(result.exitCode, 0);
+	t.is(result.signalName, null);
 });
 
 test('stdout produces correct output', async t => {
@@ -31,6 +32,12 @@ test('stderr produces correct output', async t => {
 	t.regex(lines[0], /No such file/);
 });
 
+test('returns termination signal', async t => {
+	const {exitCode, signalName} = await nanoSpawn('node', {timeout: 1});
+	t.is(exitCode, null);
+	t.is(signalName, 'SIGTERM');
+});
+
 test('combines stdout and stderr correctly', async t => {
 	const result = nanoSpawn('bash', ['-c', 'echo "stdout\nstdout2"; echo "stderr\nstderr2" 1>&2']);