diff --git a/composer/utils/dist.py b/composer/utils/dist.py
index 26b135217f..b5832740a6 100644
--- a/composer/utils/dist.py
+++ b/composer/utils/dist.py
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ def get_sampler(
     shuffle: bool = False,
     num_replicas: Optional[int] = None,
     rank: Optional[int] = None,
+    seed: int = 0,
 ):
     """Constructs a :class:`~torch.utils.data.distributed.DistributedSampler` for a dataset.
 
@@ -620,6 +621,7 @@ def get_sampler(
         shuffle=shuffle,
         num_replicas=get_world_size() if num_replicas is None else num_replicas,
         rank=get_global_rank() if rank is None else rank,
+        seed=seed,
     )