Conundrum press is the name of two book publishing companies in North America. One is located in Montreal, Canada, and was founded in 1995 by Andy Brown. Conundrum is renowned in Canadian publishing for its innovative, wide-ranging, often genre-defying, books of fiction, cultural history, graphic novels, spoken word and artist projects. Conundrum authors include Dana Bath, Marc Bell, Elisabeth Belliveau, Lance Blomgren, Shary Boyle, Howard Chackowicz, Joey Dubuc, Golda Fried, Corey Frost, Valerie Joy Kalynchuk, Liane Keightley, Catherine Kidd, Suki Lee, Amanda Marchand, Billy Mavreas, Chandra Mayor, Maya Merrick, Nathaniel G. Moore, Marc Ngui, Stéphane Olivier, Joe Ollmann, Meg Sircom, Victoria Stanton, Julia Tausch, Marc Tessier, Vincent Tinguely. Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cultural history (from the German term Kulturgeschichte), at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. ... Graphic novel (sometimes abbreviated GN) is a term for a kind of book, usually telling an extended story with sequential art ( comics). ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... Billy Mavreas (born August 14, 1968) is a Greek-Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. ...

The other Conundrum Press is in Crested Butte, Colorado, and was founded in 1998 by David J. Rothman. The American Conundrum Press is smaller and focuses on poetry of the American West, especially Colorado. Although its platform is regional, it has attracted a number of nationally and internationally known writers and its books have won several awards. Conundrum has published books by Burton Raffel, James Tipton (with a Foreword by Isabel Allende), Mark Todd (with a Foreword by Dana Gioia), Zsolt, and others.