Borisova was born in Yakutsk, and graduated from high school in 1969, whereupon she took a job at the Yakut State Drama Theater.
As part of the requirements for her theatrical post, she translated plays by Yakut writers.
[1][2] She then returned to the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, taking a post as editor and assistant director of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Academy and later becoming executive secretary of the Yakut branch of the All-Russian Theater Society.
She worked as a simultaneous translator and announcer for the state theater, with which group she traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union;[3] she eventually translated almost the entire repertory of the theater into Russian.
Since 1995, she has worked at the Bichik National Publishing House as chief editor and later, as deputy director.