In 2011 she published a collection of stories titled Doce versiones de soledad ("Twelve versions of loneliness") (Ediciones Callejón), which received the First Prize of the PEN Club of Puerto Rico and the Second prize in the contest of the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature in 2012.[1]
Her work has been included in Anthology of Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Literature (Puerto Rico, 2004), Perversions from Paradise (Spain, 2005), The faces of the hydra (Puerto Rico, 2008), Poetry of Puerto Rico: five decades (Venezuela, 2009), The Americas (Portugal, 2010), and In the Eye of the Hurricane (Editorial Norma, 2011).[2]
She has published poetry under the penname,“S. Tornasol.”[3]
López Baralt, Luce. “La poesía ante el espejo invertidor: las Elusiones y alusiones de Janette Becerra”, Revista La Torre, Año VIII, núm. 28 (2004): 215-229.
"Premio Nuevas Voces", Festival de la Palabra 2013, Puerto Rico. October 2013[citation needed].
International Short Story Award 2012 of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, for the "Ciencia imperfecta" storybook. June 2013[1][2]
Second National Literature Prize for Doce versiones de soledad. Institute of Puerto Rican Literature (ex aequo with "La R de mi padre", Magali García Ramis). January 2013[citation needed].
"Barco de Vapor" Prize of children's literature, Ediciones SM Puerto Rico, for the novel Antrópolis. December 2012.[5]
National Short Story Prize, Pen Club of PR for Doce versiones de soledad. December 2012.[citation needed]
First prize in the XIV International Short Story Prize of the Gaceta de Salamanca Foundation, November 2009, Spain, with the story "Soledad perfecta". [citation needed]
"Doce versiones de soledad" selected amongst "The Ten Best Fiction Books of 2012." El Nuevo Día, December 31, 2012[specify].