She is married to D.B. Sherchan and has two lovely children Astha and Astik. She feels that a poet’s responsibility is to point out social faults, problems, and the pain she sees. These poems have been selected because they, in one way or another, make political or social statements. They especially focus on the political systems practiced in Nepal, highlight social problems, and comment on the changes in attitudes of the Nepalese people.

Usha Sherchan's work is especially noteworthy as she represents a woman's point of view as well as that of a new generation of Thakali poets, an ethnic community that has made significant contribution to Nepalese literature. Sidelined by the political and economic machinery (as well as the dominance of the policy-making and executive branches of the government by a few ethnic groups) women's concerns and that of minority groups are often not given the attention and care they deserve at the national level. These poems clearly state the opinion of a minority and that of women.

Usha Sherchan’s poems have been published over the years by politics- and news-based papers like Rastra Pukar, Kantipur, Gorkhapatra, Saptahik Bimarsha as well as literary publications like Samasamayik Sahitya, Sajha Kavita, and Nepali Samasamayik Kavita. Her name has been recommended by more than fifteen leading poets and literature commentators for inclusion on a list of one hundred poets of Nepal being prepared by Spiny Babbler. As a poet she has created a clear space for herself in the Nepalese literature map.

Dr. Shreedhar Gautam, in his essay on Nepali literature published in The Kathmandu Post labeled a special Usha Sherchan focus article with the term protest literature. "The poet shows passionate concern to the plight of the Nepalese people.... She has portrayed a realistic picture of our society, especially the people who are insulted and injured."

Usha Sherchan lives with her husband and two children in Lalitpur City, Kathmandu Valley. She hopes to continue writing poems that present the issues of the disadvantaged with honesty and clarity.