Jamal Ehsani was born in Sargodha, Pakistan on April 21, 1951. He did his primary education from the same city and then shifted to Karachi at very young age. He carried on with his studies in Karachi and did a variety of jobs. His two poetry books went to print during his lifetime and one, when he was no more, with help from Dr. Fatima Hasan. His complete work of poetry that has been published is entitled Kulliyat-e-Jamal (2008), which is highly appreciated by a large number of Urdu shayars. He passed away on February 10, 1998 in Karachi.