She obtained a professional baccalaureate degree in agricultural at the Jean-Errecart high school in Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

She later obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies [fr] (diploma of advanced studies) in history at the University of Pau and the Adour Region.

[1] The best-known character in Borda's noir fiction work is Amaia Ezpeldoi, an atypical, rural, bisexual, and communication-challenged Souletine detective who first appears in the novel Bakean ützi arte, from 1994, and later in Bizi nizano munduan and Amorezko pena baño, both from 1996, forming a first trilogy.

In these three works, she deals with Souletine themes, such as the gas industry or the production of esparto grass, as well as the socioeconomic and cultural situation of the French Basque Country.

[3] In 2002, she received the Premios Euskadi de Literatura [es] prize in the "Basque-language literature" category for her novel % 100 basque  [eu].