Peter Gershon is coordinator of the Core Residency Program at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and former editor and publisher of Signal to Noise from 1997 to 2013. During that time, the quarterly journal of improvised and experimental music was nominated eight times as best periodical covering jazz"? by the Jazz Journalists Association. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and is studying to earn his masters in Library Science at the University of North Texas in Denton."