diff --git a/news/3257.bugfix.rst b/news/3257.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c816c93a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/3257.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed an issue where pipenv could crash when multiple pipenv processes attempted to create the same directory.
diff --git a/pipenv/utils.py b/pipenv/utils.py
index 22837d264e..84a4c105f0 100644
--- a/pipenv/utils.py
+++ b/pipenv/utils.py
@@ -832,8 +832,18 @@ def mkdir_p(newdir):
         if head and not os.path.isdir(head):
             mkdir_p(head)
         if tail:
-            os.mkdir(newdir)
-
+            # Even though we've checked that the directory doesn't exist above, it might exist
+            # now if some other process has created it between now and the time we checked it.
+            try:
+                os.mkdir(newdir)
+            except OSError as exn:
+                # If we failed because the directory does exist, that's not a problem -
+                # that's what we were trying to do anyway. Only re-raise the exception
+                # if we failed for some other reason.
+                if exn.errno != errno.EEXIST:
+                    raise
+
+                
 
 def is_required_version(version, specified_version):
     """Check to see if there's a hard requirement for version