diff --git a/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/__init__.py b/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/__init__.py
index b7e1db35845e..c36b48b85ea8 100644
--- a/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/__init__.py
+++ b/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .sparsity_config import SparsityConfig, DenseSparsityConfig, FixedSparsityConfig, VariableSparsityConfig, BigBirdSparsityConfig, BSLongformerSparsityConfig
+from .sparsity_config import SparsityConfig, DenseSparsityConfig, FixedSparsityConfig, VariableSparsityConfig, BigBirdSparsityConfig, BSLongformerSparsityConfig, LocalSlidingWindowSparsityConfig
 from .sparse_self_attention import SparseSelfAttention
 from .bert_sparse_self_attention import BertSparseSelfAttention
 from .sparse_attention_utils import SparseAttentionUtils
diff --git a/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/sparsity_config.py b/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/sparsity_config.py
index 1f0dce4f0b31..efdad2e4d7e5 100644
--- a/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/sparsity_config.py
+++ b/deepspeed/ops/sparse_attention/sparsity_config.py
@@ -681,3 +681,63 @@ def make_layout(self, seq_len):
 
         layout = self.check_and_propagate_first_head_layout(layout)
         return layout
+
+
+class LocalSlidingWindowSparsityConfig(SparsityConfig):
+    """Configuration class to store `Local Sliding Window` sparsity configuration - a purely-local sliding window attention.
+    This class extends parent class of `SparsityConfig` and customizes it for `Local` sparsity.
+    """
+    def __init__(self,
+                 num_heads,
+                 block=16,
+                 num_sliding_window_blocks=3,
+                 attention='unidirectional'):
+        """Initialize the Local Sliding Window Sparsity Pattern Config.
+        For usage example please see, TODO DeepSpeed Sparse Transformer Tutorial
+        Arguments:
+             num_heads: required: an integer determining number of attention heads of the layer.
+             block: optional: an integer determining the block size. Current implementation of sparse self-attention is based on blocked sparse matrices. In which this parameter defines size of such blocks, `Block X Block`.
+             num_sliding_window_blocks: optional: an integer determining the number of blocks in sliding local attention window.
+	     attention: optional: a string determining attention type. Attention can be `unidirectional`, such as autoregressive models, in which tokens attend only to tokens appear before them in the context. Considering that, the upper triangular of attention matrix is empty as above figure. Or it can be `bidirectional`, such as BERT, in which tokens can attend to any other tokens before or after them. Then, the upper triangular part of the attention matrix is mirror of the lower triangular in the above figure.
+        """
+
+        super().__init__(num_heads, block)
+        self.num_sliding_window_blocks = num_sliding_window_blocks
+        self.attention = attention
+
+    def set_sliding_window_layout(self, h, layout):
+        """Sets sliding local attention layout used by the given head in the sparse attention.
+        Arguments:
+             h: required: an integer determining head index
+             layout: required: a tensor of dimension (num_heads, num_blocks, num_blocks) containing sparsity layout of all head; may not be completely set at this step
+        Return:
+             layout: a tensor of dimension (num_heads, num_blocks, num_blocks) containing sparsity layout of all head in which local sliding window layout is set
+        """
+
+        num_blocks = layout.shape[1]
+        if (num_blocks < self.num_sliding_window_blocks):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f'Number of sliding window blocks, {self.num_sliding_window_blocks}, must be smaller than overal number of blocks in a row, {num_blocks}!'
+            )
+
+        w = self.num_sliding_window_blocks // 2
+        for row in range(0, num_blocks):
+            start = max(0, row - w)
+            end = min(row + w + 1,
+                      num_blocks) if self.attention == "bidirectional" else row + 1
+            layout[h, row, start:end] = 1
+        return layout
+
+    def make_layout(self, seq_len):
+        """Generates `Local Sliding Window` sparsity layout used by each head in the sparse attention.
+        Arguments:
+             seq_len: required: an integer determining number of attention heads of the layer.
+        Return:
+             layout: a tensor of dimension (num_heads, num_blocks, num_blocks) containing `BigBird` sparsity layout of all head
+        """
+
+        layout = self.setup_layout(seq_len)
+        for h in range(0, self.num_layout_heads):
+            layout = self.set_sliding_window_layout(h, layout)
+        layout = self.check_and_propagate_first_head_layout(layout)
+        return layout
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_sparse_attention.py b/tests/unit/test_sparse_attention.py
index f3079982c964..4c35251fa816 100755
--- a/tests/unit/test_sparse_attention.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_sparse_attention.py
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ def test_bslongformersparsityconfig_module_availability():
     return True
 
 
+def test_localwindowsparsityconfig_module_availability():
+    return True
+    try:
+        from deepspeed.ops.sparse_attention import LocalSlidingWindowSparsityConfig
+    except ImportError:
+        print("LocalSlidingWindowSparsityConfig Module is not installed!")
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
 def test_sparseselfattention_module_availability():
     return True
     try: