Jordhy Ledesma is an award winning Dominican poet, mathematician, chess player and businessman born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic in 1978. He’s represented San Cristobal in the First Dominican Biennial of Short-story Telling and the Dominican Republic in The Second Encounter of International Poets in the Poet’s Land (Costa Rica).
Poetry
He has written over 800 poems in the poetry collections “Poemas Escritos por un Toro”, “Grecia Yolanda”, “Toros de la Dignidad”, “Immortal”, “Caliginofobia”, “Constelacion” and “Amor, Pasion y Vida”. The body of his work features mainly narrative and theatrical poetry.
Media
Owner of the firm Information Providers and various online properties, he works as a businessman and Web producer. In this respect, the Word Summit Award (the Internet award sponsored by the World Summit on the Information Society ) nominated Ledesma as best e-Government producer for his work at siv.gov.do in 2005.
Math
According to the OEI (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos) he has been involved in the Iberoamerican Math Olympiads as contestant, judge and delegation chief several times. He also participated in the training of more than 200 Dominicans in preparation of the Ibero-American Mathematical Olympiad.