Mima Dixon was born in the small community of Ransomville, North Carolina on February 21, 1947. “Blink and you would miss it,” said Dixon. She went to business school in Durham, NC, and returned to Washington, NC, where she worked as a secretary at the Beaufort County Technology Institute for over 20 years. But inside, she always wanted to be a teacher. She became a librarian at the BHM Regional Library in Washington, which is where she found her true calling, reading stories to children.