diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-yarn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-yarn/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2ef7c232f4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-yarn/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pythonOlder
+, distributed
+, dask
+, grpcio
+, skein
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "dask-yarn";
+  version = "0.9";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "dask";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    hash = "sha256-/BTsxQSiVQrihrCa9DE7pueyg3aPAdjd/Dt4dpUwdtM=";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    distributed
+    dask
+    grpcio
+    skein
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+  preCheck = ''
+    export HOME=$TMPDIR
+  '';
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "dask_yarn" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Deploy dask on YARN clusters";
+    longDescription = ''Dask-Yarn deploys Dask on YARN clusters,
+      such as are found in traditional Hadoop installations.
+      Dask-Yarn provides an easy interface to quickly start,
+      stop, and scale Dask clusters natively from Python.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://yarn.dask.org/";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ illustris ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 63dd4ba178f..808618fb4a1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2043,6 +2043,8 @@ in {
 
   dask-xgboost = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dask-xgboost { };
 
+  dask-yarn = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dask-yarn { };
+
   databases = callPackage ../development/python-modules/databases { };
 
   databricks-cli = callPackage ../development/python-modules/databricks-cli { };