diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 9f73dc3f..d1683042 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -905,6 +905,27 @@ files = [
 google-auth = ">=1.12.0"
 google-auth-oauthlib = ">=0.4.1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "gunicorn"
+version = "22.0.0"
+description = "WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "gunicorn-22.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:350679f91b24062c86e386e198a15438d53a7a8207235a78ba1b53df4c4378d9"},
+    {file = "gunicorn-22.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4a0b436239ff76fb33f11c07a16482c521a7e09c1ce3cc293c2330afe01bec63"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+packaging = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+eventlet = ["eventlet (>=0.24.1,!=0.36.0)"]
+gevent = ["gevent (>=1.4.0)"]
+setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
+testing = ["coverage", "eventlet", "gevent", "pytest", "pytest-cov"]
+tornado = ["tornado (>=0.2)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "h11"
 version = "0.14.0"
@@ -2146,4 +2167,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10.0"
-content-hash = "54e5027a8ee89f1e59863c9bcab95efb554f43e553029da16ddd7f64bf2921a4"
+content-hash = "8c8f13fd29f92be1c224cfff4ad90741be29c110fc828d46bf7b7d8591d0a8f6"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 156dac77..a38daf55 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ django-pipeline = "*"  # TODO: To eventually be replaced by webpack-loader
 django-smtp-ssl = "*"
 django-webpack-loader = "^1.1.0"  # Should maintain parity with frontend/package.json
 gspread = "*"
+gunicorn = "^22.0.0"  # Used to deploy in prod (temp that this is in poetry)
 markdown2 = "*"
 mitoc-const = "^1.0.0"  # (1.0.0 includes type hints)
 phonenumberslite = "*"