The following year he lived and studied in East Aurora, New York, after being granted a scholarship by the international youth organization American Field Service.
In 1972 he transferred to the University of Granada where he completed his degree in English Philology (Licenciado en Filología Inglesa).
After living in New Orleans (USA) for two years, he returned to the Spanish Andalusian towns of Arcos de la Frontera (where, for a period of three years, he worked at the local public secondary school as a Spanish Literature and English teacher) and Rota (where he worked as an English teacher until October 2011).
In the academic year 1982-1983 he lived in London, England, teaching Spanish at The Prince Regent Comprehensive School.
Moving back to the USA, he became an adjunct professor during the school year 2012-2013, teaching Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and World Literature in the Augustine and Culture Seminar at Villanova University (Pennsylvania).
In 2015 he, along with his wife and young son, moved south, to the state of Florida, where he taught English Composition and North-American and World Literature as an instructor for Southern State University, at CCA (Calvary Christian Academy), Ormond Beach, and Spanish language in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Stetson University, DeLand.
He has also worked as an on- call language instructor for L-3 Communications in San Antonio, Texas, and Miami, Florida.
He retired in May 2023 and is now living most of the year in Ormond Beach, Florida, spending sometime in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
In the year 2010 his book of poems Los Jardines de Hielo received an accesit in the International Poetry Award given by the Ecoem Foundation in Seville, Spain, and in 2012 his collection of poems Los Reinos Diminutos won the 27th Unicaja International Poetry Award.
Reviews + Jose Maria Moreno Carrascal, Review of "Eras la Noche", novel by Ramón Pérez Montero,https://librosdelaherida.blogspot.com/2021/04/resena-de-eras-la-noche-writer-as.html + José María M. Carrascal, Selección de poemas de Jean Tooomer; “Sentado en mi habitación y otros poemas” .
+ José María Moreno Carrascal, Review in English of "El Despertar" Kate Chopin, edited and translated by Eulalia Gil Piñero Cátedra, Madrid, 2012, ATLANTIS.
+ (John Updike), "Poemas" (Introduction and translation), Clarín, Revista de Nueva Literatura, nº 20, Oviedo, 1999.
+ William Stanley Merwin, "Poemas", (Introduction and translation),Revista Atlántica de Poesía, nº 11, 1996, Cádiz.
+ (David Herbert Lawrence),"Poemas" (Introduction and translation), Cuadernos de Cera, nº 5, Rota, 1981.