diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7394da540..2e11dc187 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1580,6 +1580,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "roxmltree",
  "rustybuzz",
  "serde_json",
+ "serde_yaml",
  "smallvec",
  "syntect",
  "ttf-parser 0.18.1",
diff --git a/assets/files/bad.yaml b/assets/files/bad.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..330ec7a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/files/bad.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+this_will_break: [)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/assets/files/scifi-authors.yaml b/assets/files/scifi-authors.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1cffc760d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/files/scifi-authors.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+"Arthur C. Clarke": 
+  - title: Against the Fall of Night
+    published: "1978"
+  - title: The songs of distant earth
+    published: "1986"
+
+"Isaac Asimov": 
+  - title: Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
+    published: "1977"
+  - title: Far as Human Eye Could See 
+    published: 1987
diff --git a/assets/files/yamltypes.yaml b/assets/files/yamltypes.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eb7597779
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/files/yamltypes.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+null_key: [null, ~]
+"string": text
+integer: 5
+float: 1.12
+mapping: { '1': "one", '2': "two"}
+seq: [1, 2, 3, 4]
+bool: false
+true: bool
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/library/Cargo.toml b/library/Cargo.toml
index a7f1f4180..d1fe4267a 100644
--- a/library/Cargo.toml
+++ b/library/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ once_cell = "1"
 roxmltree = "0.14"
 rustybuzz = "0.5"
 serde_json = "1"
+serde_yaml = "0.8"
 smallvec = "1.10"
 syntect = { version = "5", default-features = false, features = ["default-syntaxes", "regex-fancy"] }
 ttf-parser = "0.18.1"
diff --git a/library/src/compute/data.rs b/library/src/compute/data.rs
index 0c17972d0..c2dc632bb 100644
--- a/library/src/compute/data.rs
+++ b/library/src/compute/data.rs
@@ -207,6 +207,96 @@ fn format_json_error(error: serde_json::Error) -> String {
     format!("failed to parse json file: syntax error in line {}", error.line())
 }
 
+/// Read structured data from a YAML file.
+///
+/// The file must contain a valid YAML object or array. YAML mappings will be
+/// converted into Typst dictionaries, and YAML sequences will be converted into
+/// Typst arrays. Strings and booleans will be converted into the Typst
+/// equivalents, null-values (`null`, `~` or empty ``) will be converted into 
+/// `{none}`, and numbers will be converted to floats or integers depending on 
+/// whether they are whole numbers.
+///
+/// Note that mapping keys that are not a string cause the entry to be 
+/// discarded.
+/// 
+/// Custom YAML tags are ignored, though the loaded value will still be
+/// present.
+/// 
+/// The function returns a dictionary or value or an array, depending on
+/// the YAML file.
+///
+/// The YAML files in the example contain objects with authors as keys,
+/// each with a sequence of their own submapping with the keys 
+/// "title" and "published"
+///
+/// ## Example
+/// ```example
+/// #let bookshelf(contents) = {
+///   for author, works in contents {
+///     author
+///     for work in works [
+///       - #work.title (#work.published)
+///     ]
+///   }
+/// }
+///
+/// #bookshelf(yaml("scifi-authors.yaml"))
+/// ```
+///
+/// Display: YAML
+/// Category: data-loading
+/// Returns: array or value or dictionary
+#[func]
+pub fn yaml(
+    /// Path to a YAML file.
+    path: Spanned<EcoString>,
+) -> Value {
+    let Spanned { v: path, span } = path;
+    let path = vm.locate(&path).at(span)?;
+    let data = vm.world().file(&path).at(span)?;
+    let value: serde_yaml::Value =
+        serde_yaml::from_slice(&data).map_err(format_yaml_error).at(span)?;
+    convert_yaml(value)
+}
+
+/// Convert a YAML value to a Typst value.
+fn convert_yaml(value: serde_yaml::Value) -> Value {
+    match value {
+        serde_yaml::Value::Null => Value::None,
+        serde_yaml::Value::Bool(v) => Value::Bool(v),
+        serde_yaml::Value::Number(v) => match v.as_i64() {
+            Some(int) => Value::Int(int),
+            None => Value::Float(v.as_f64().unwrap_or(f64::NAN)),
+        },
+        serde_yaml::Value::String(v) => Value::Str(v.into()),
+        serde_yaml::Value::Sequence(v) => {
+            Value::Array(v.into_iter().map(convert_yaml).collect())
+        }
+        serde_yaml::Value::Mapping(v) => Value::Dict(
+            v.into_iter()
+                .map(|(key, value)| (convert_yaml_key(key), convert_yaml(value)))
+                .filter_map(|(key, value)| key.map(|key|(key, value)))
+                .collect(),
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/// Converts an arbitary YAML mapping key into a Typst Dict Key.
+/// Currently it only does so for strings, everything else
+/// returns None
+fn convert_yaml_key(key: serde_yaml::Value) -> Option<Str> {
+    match key {
+        serde_yaml::Value::String(v) => Some(Str::from(v)),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Format the user-facing YAML error message.
+#[track_caller]
+fn format_yaml_error(error: serde_yaml::Error) -> String {
+    format!("failed to parse yaml file: {}", error.to_string().trim())
+}
+
 /// Read structured data from an XML file.
 ///
 /// The XML file is parsed into an array of dictionaries and strings. XML nodes
diff --git a/library/src/lib.rs b/library/src/lib.rs
index 178db8a21..cabafd8cc 100644
--- a/library/src/lib.rs
+++ b/library/src/lib.rs
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ fn global(math: Module, calc: Module) -> Module {
     global.define("read", compute::read);
     global.define("csv", compute::csv);
     global.define("json", compute::json);
+    global.define("yaml", compute::yaml);
     global.define("xml", compute::xml);
 
     // Calc.
diff --git a/tests/typ/compute/data.typ b/tests/typ/compute/data.typ
index 43746e188..cfd761df6 100644
--- a/tests/typ/compute/data.typ
+++ b/tests/typ/compute/data.typ
@@ -41,6 +41,24 @@
 // Error: 7-18 failed to parse json file: syntax error in line 3
 #json("/bad.json")
 
+---
+// Test reading YAML data
+#let data = yaml("/yamltypes.yaml")
+#test(data.len(), 7)
+#test(data.null_key, (none, none))
+#test(data.string, "text")
+#test(data.integer, 5)
+#test(data.float, 1.12)
+#test(data.mapping, ("1": "one", "2": "two"))
+#test(data.seq, (1,2,3,4))
+#test(data.bool, false)
+#test(data.keys().contains("true"), false)
+---
+
+---
+// Error: 7-18 failed to parse yaml file: while parsing a flow sequence, expected ',' or ']' at line 2 column 1
+#yaml("/bad.yaml")
+
 ---
 // Test reading XML data.
 #let data = xml("/data.xml")