Sofia Agacher (Elena Vasilievna Klimenkova) was born in the city of Gomel, in the Byelorussian SSR. She graduated with honors from the Minsk Medical Institute and completed postgraduate studies at the First Moscow Medical Institute named after Sechenov. She defended her dissertation in the specialty of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. She has been engaged in teaching, research, and entrepreneurial activities, and holds patented inventions and scientific publications.
She began writing in 2013. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Moscow City branch of the Union of Writers of Russia.
She is the author of the family reading book Stories about Romka and His Grandmother, the novels Through Your Eyes, A Journey Within Yourself, Healing the World: The Journal of Lynx and Net, and the short prose collection Six Minutes. She also writes plays and screenplays.
Her stories have been published in literary journals and on literary portals including Yunost, Don, Sever, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Revizor, Vtornik, Klauzura, 45th Parallel, ATMA, Mezhdurechye, and Pampasy. She is a co-author of collective poetry and prose anthologies published by the Nikitskie Vorota publishing house. She has served as editor and compiler of family reading short story collections including Children and Adults for Children and Adults, When I Write, About My Family, and Memory Diaries.
For the novel Through Your Eyes, she was awarded the Silver Medal of the German International Competition of Russian-Speaking Authors “Best Book of the Year” (2020). For the novel A Journey Within Yourself, she received the Bronze Medal of the same competition in 2021.
In May 2025, for the novel Healing the World: The Journal of Lynx and Net, she became the recipient of the National Literary Prize named after Daniil Granin.