Lauren Groff, author of the novel The Monsters. of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of stories, and Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, will be having a book reading and signing at the Wittliff Library at Texas State University at 3:30 p.m. April 19. She will also have a reading and signing at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in downtown Kyle at 7:30 p.m., April 20.