",[3] while her monograph American Literature in Context to 1865 raised a series or questions for one reviewer: "How can we bring scholarship that challenges the U.S.-based framing of early America into introductory texts?
[4] Her novel Casket Girls is described by Deborah Alma as "Beautifully written, enthralling and richly layered account of extraordinary times and places.
Castillo casts an unflinching eye on the horrors of slavery and the strength of women against the most terrible odds, and brings it wonderfully to life in this powerful novel."
[7][8] Jill Munro describes The Gun-Runner's Daughter (2018) in the following: "Susan Castillo Street weaves a feisty autobiographical web of familial relationships, cottonmouths, cicadas and crabbing amongst many other varied subjects; a ‘bayou fusillade’ (The Alchemist) of images and well-hewn narratives from a Southern Gothic childhood to the present day.
One of the founding members of the Campaign for Real Ale, he enjoyed nothing more than sipping a pint of Harveys at his village pub and revelled in the peace and solitude of his home, where deer would wander into the garden from the nearby forest.