diff --git a/boltons/strutils.py b/boltons/strutils.py
index 60f4652f..1d43f2b0 100644
--- a/boltons/strutils.py
+++ b/boltons/strutils.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
            'iter_splitlines', 'indent', 'escape_shell_args',
            'args2cmd', 'args2sh', 'parse_int_list', 'format_int_list',
            'complement_int_list', 'int_ranges_from_int_list', 'MultiReplace',
-           'multi_replace', 'unwrap_text']
+           'multi_replace', 'unwrap_text', 'removeprefix']
 
 
 _punct_ws_str = string.punctuation + string.whitespace
@@ -1273,3 +1273,17 @@ def unwrap_text(text, ending='\n\n'):
     if ending is None:
         return all_grafs
     return ending.join(all_grafs)
+
+def removeprefix(text: str, prefix: str) -> str:
+    r"""
+    Remove `prefix` from start of `text` if present.
+
+    Backport of `str.removeprefix` for Python versions less than 3.9.
+
+    Args:
+        text: A string to remove the prefix from.
+        prefix: The string to remove from the beginning of `text`.
+    """
+    if text.startswith(prefix):
+        return text[len(prefix):]
+    return text
diff --git a/tests/test_fileutils.py b/tests/test_fileutils.py
index 1c00ab73..81987b0b 100644
--- a/tests/test_fileutils.py
+++ b/tests/test_fileutils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 from boltons import fileutils
 from boltons.fileutils import FilePerms, iter_find_files
+from boltons.strutils import removeprefix
 
 
 BOLTONS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(fileutils.__file__))
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ def test_fileperms():
 
 def test_iter_find_files():
     def _to_baseless_list(paths):
-        return [p.lstrip(BOLTONS_PATH) for p in paths]
+        return [removeprefix(p, BOLTONS_PATH).lstrip(os.path.sep) for p in paths]
 
     assert 'fileutils.py' in _to_baseless_list(iter_find_files(BOLTONS_PATH, patterns=['*.py']))