[3] In 2007, Satterfield was awarded both a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature for poetry and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal for the Essay.

[4] In reviewing Satterfield's memoir Daughters of Empire, critic Rick Taylor of Elevate Difference writes that "the evocative power of her memory and the clarity of her language, she draws the reader willingly into this vortex".

[5] Critic Sondra Guttman notes that "Satterfield's approach is more scholarly than most... [and] brings a poet's eye and ear to the task of grappling with questions of gender, sexuality, and maternity".

[1] According to Susan McCallum-Smith in Belles Lettres, Satterfield describes "the terrifying vortex of new motherhood...where one's body is a foreign country, where sensual and creative energies are smothered, constricted, then transformed.

"[9] Reviewer Deborah L. Humphreys praised Satterfield's Assignation at Vanishing Point for being "so carefully arranged, there occasionally appears to be a sort of enjambment between several poems.

By contrast, reviewer Allyson Shaw observed that Satterfield deftly incorporates "fragments from the lives of women writers from Simone de Beauvoir to Brontë.

These bits of lost history are re-imagined in epistolary persona poems and lyric meditations, yet these voices are not just claimed; they are interrogated.

"[10] In reviewing Her Familiars Caitlin Doyle noted that "Satterfield's intense engagement with political and military matters marks a central difference between Her Familiars and her previous collections," adding, "She shines as a poet when drawing unique parallels across the centuries, placing surprising details in relation to each other so that her poems achieve a densely layered complexity.