 In April 2013, Messud published her sixth novel, "The Woman Upstairs", in 2017 followed by "The burning girl".Messud has taught creative writing at Amherst College, Kenyon College, University of Maryland, Yale University, in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in North Carolina, in the Graduate Writing program at The Johns Hopkins University, and at Harvard University.Messud also taught at in Sewanee, Tennessee.