diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 0c26cdf861d..2a256269f2c 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 ## Improvements
 
+* Parallelize across attributes when closing a write [#2048](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/2048)
+
 ## Deprecations
 
 ## Bug fixes
diff --git a/tiledb/sm/query/writer.cc b/tiledb/sm/query/writer.cc
index 86102473b1b..4d1e9af44a5 100644
--- a/tiledb/sm/query/writer.cc
+++ b/tiledb/sm/query/writer.cc
@@ -1308,15 +1308,30 @@ void Writer::clear_coord_buffers() {
 
 Status Writer::close_files(FragmentMetadata* meta) const {
   // Close attribute and dimension files
-  for (const auto& it : buffers_) {
-    const auto& name = it.first;
-    RETURN_NOT_OK(storage_manager_->close_file(meta->uri(name)));
+  const auto buffer_name = buffer_names();
+
+  std::vector<URI> file_uris;
+  file_uris.reserve(buffer_name.size() * 3);
+
+  for (const auto& name : buffer_name) {
+    file_uris.emplace_back(meta->uri(name));
     if (array_schema_->var_size(name))
-      RETURN_NOT_OK(storage_manager_->close_file(meta->var_uri(name)));
+      file_uris.emplace_back(meta->var_uri(name));
     if (array_schema_->is_nullable(name))
-      RETURN_NOT_OK(storage_manager_->close_file(meta->validity_uri(name)));
+      file_uris.emplace_back(meta->validity_uri(name));
   }
 
+  auto statuses = parallel_for(
+      storage_manager_->io_tp(), 0, file_uris.size(), [&](uint64_t i) {
+        const auto& file_ur = file_uris[i];
+        RETURN_NOT_OK(storage_manager_->close_file(file_ur));
+        return Status::Ok();
+      });
+
+  // Check all statuses
+  for (auto& st : statuses)
+    RETURN_NOT_OK(st);
+
   return Status::Ok();
 }