Jayshree Merchant retired as a director of a clinical laboratory. She stays in California and is a writer. She has been associated with Gujarati Literary Academy of North America right from its inception.
Her foray in literature writing started in early 70s. He articles and poems have appeared in prestigious Gujarati dailies. For last Thirty Five years, Jayshree’s articles,poems and essays have appeared in prestigious Gujarati Magazines and Newspapers. She has written novels,short stories, poems, articles and Gazals.
On 1st January 2023,Jayshree was given ‘Vishva Gurjari Award’ by the eminent saint shree MorariBapu. For her poetry, she has been bestowed with famous poet Ramesh Parekh memorial award
She is also very actively involved in arrangement of workshops to promote Gujarati literature and expose the youngsters with, to various aspects of literature.
Till 2020, she was actively involved with the blog ‘Daavdanu aanganu’ (દાવડાનું આંગણું) as an editor in chief. Now she is coming up with ‘Aapanu aanganu’ blog.