diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 51f74d6..ee0d50e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
   for contemporary versions of Java
 - Add support for Python 3.7
 - Add `testbook` to `notebook` subsystem
+- Add `pueblo.util.proc.process` utility. It is a wrapper around
+  `subprocess.Popen` to also terminate child processes after exiting.
  
 ## 2023-11-06 v0.0.3
 - ngr: Fix `contextlib.chdir` only available on Python 3.11 and newer
diff --git a/pueblo/util/proc.py b/pueblo/util/proc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fa2ea6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pueblo/util/proc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import subprocess
+import typing as t
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+import psutil
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def process(*args, **kwargs) -> t.Generator[subprocess.Popen, None, None]:
+    """
+    Wrapper around `subprocess.Popen` to also terminate child processes after exiting.
+
+    Implementation by Pedro Cattori. Thanks!
+    -- https://gist.github.com/jizhilong/6687481#gistcomment-3057122
+    """
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(*args, **kwargs)  # noqa: S603
+    try:
+        yield proc
+    finally:
+        try:
+            children = psutil.Process(proc.pid).children(recursive=True)
+        except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
+            return
+        for child in children:
+            child.kill()
+        proc.kill()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c75d6c9..eecf254 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 all = [
-  "pueblo[cli,dataframe,fileio,nlp,notebook,testing,web]",
+  "pueblo[cli,dataframe,fileio,nlp,notebook,proc,testing,web]",
 ]
 cli = [
   "click<9",
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ notebook = [
   "pytest-notebook<0.11",
   "testbook<0.5",
 ]
+proc = [
+  "psutil<6",
+]
 release = [
   "build<2",
   "twine<5",
diff --git a/tests/test_proc.py b/tests/test_proc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0de480f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_proc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import pytest
+
+from pueblo.util.proc import process
+
+
+def test_process_success(tmp_path):
+    outfile = tmp_path / "myfile.out.log"
+    with process(["echo", "Hello, world."], stdout=open(outfile, "w")) as proc:
+        assert isinstance(proc.pid, int)
+
+    with open(outfile, "r") as fp:
+        assert fp.read() == "Hello, world.\n"
+
+
+def test_process_noop():
+    process(["mycommand", "myarg", "--myoption", "myoptionvalue"])
+
+
+def test_process_failure_command_not_found():
+    with pytest.raises(FileNotFoundError) as ex:
+        with process(["mycommand", "myarg", "--myoption", "myoptionvalue"]):
+            pass
+    assert ex.match("No such file or directory")
+
+
+def test_process_failure_in_contextmanager():
+    with pytest.raises(ZeroDivisionError):
+        with process(["echo", "Hello, world."]) as proc:
+            print(proc.pid)  # noqa: T201
+            # Even though this throws an exception, the `process` contextmanager
+            # will *still* clean up the process correctly.
+            0 / 0  # noqa: B018